Watched a documentary on the History Channel about this astounding chapter of history…
What I personally found remarkable in the whole episode is that when the King Leonidas of Sparta died…yes he died before all his men were killed….a fact changed by the movie 300….
His soldiers bravely fought to safeguard his dead body which they knew will be disrespected by the Persian king Xerxes.
So what was more remarkable than the fact that King Leonidas prepared his men, decided they wanted to go for this war…where odds were heavily against them, strategized it brilliantly, fought along with his soldiers………. may be would have even won if it would not have been for a traitor….is that he commanded so much respect from his men, that even when they were facing their own death, they defended his honor till they lived….
The respect he earned says about his leadership, and how the gallant men fought a war for their king with a conscience and heart …