King Leonidas in 300?!
Question: So yeah, I've watched the movie 300. I know that the Battle of Thermopylae was real and so was Xerxes.
But was King Leonidas real? Or was he just a character made for the movie?
Answers: So yeah, I've watched the movie 300. I know that the Battle of Thermopylae was real and so was Xerxes.
But was King Leonidas real? Or was he just a character made for the movie?
Leonidas was very real.
Definition: Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who bravely led a small force of Greeks -- mostly Spartan (the famous 300), but also Thespians and Thebans -- against the much larger Persian army of Xerxes, at the pass of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C. during the Persian Wars. According to Herodotus, Leonidas had been warned by the Delphic oracle that either Sparta would be destroyed or their king would lose his life. Leonidas chose the second alternative.
All the Spartans and Thespians died, including Leonidas, although Herodotus says the Thebans had never wanted to be there and surrendered when Leonidas was killed. The Persians mangled the corpse of Leonidas.
Leonidas was the half-brother of King Cleomenes I of Sparta. After Cleomenes' suicide, Leonidas was made king because Cleomenes had died without a son or other closer male relative. Leonidas was also married to Cleomenes' only child and heir, Gorgo. Herodotus says this was part of the reason he became king. Since they were kings from the Agiad line, both Cleomenes and Leonidas claimed Heracles (Hercules) as ancestor.
he is real
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He was the actual King of Sparta
he was based on a real character from the fables of Greece however it is debateable whether he really existed as records in those times were not existent and everything was assed by word of mouth
Yeah, he was a real king of Sparta and he did fight in the Battle of Thermopylae. Frank Miller actually based 300 on an old movie called "300 Spartans." I think some things in the movie are true - for instance, Spartan elders inspected every male baby and would kill an infant by exposure if it was weak or physically deformed and as a rite of passage, boys would have to leave the city and perform some task. Often, Spartan boys would be ordered to go into Messenia (a region the Spartans conquered and enslaved) and randomly kill the slaves at night in order to discourage slave uprisings.
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