They are joined along the way by Arcadians.
As Leonidas angrily departs, an agent from Xerxes appears, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support.Īlthough the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta’s army, Leonidas gathers three hundred of his best soldiers in the guise of his personal bodyguard. The Ephors consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta will not go to war during the Carneia. His plan involves building a wall in order to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea: negating the Persian advantage in numbers, and giving Greeks heavy infantry the advantage over the vast waves of Persian light infantry. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the numerically superior Persians through the Hot Gates. Dilios’s story continues and a Persian herald arrives at the gates of Sparta demanding “earth and water” as a token of submission to King Xerxes-the Spartans reply by throwing the envoy and his escort into a deep well. In 479 BC, one year after the Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan Army, begins his story by depicting the life of Leonidas I from childhood to kingship via Spartan doctrine. Stars: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
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