# Battle of Thermopylae: Leonidas and the 300 Spartans

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- Source account: [@AI_oldwang](https://x.com/AI_oldwang)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:39
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans

## Transcript

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=3) This is Thermophylacus, Greece, 480 BC. That's the Persian army, and this is the only road into Greece.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=10) It's fifteen meters wide, mountain on one side, sea on the other.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=14) So it doesn't matter how many they have.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=16) Only the front row can fight. Forward.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=26) Quick fact. It's not three hundred. There are seven thousand Greeks here.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=30) The three hundred are the king's bodyguard, and every one of them was picked because he already had a son.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=35) So if he dies, his family line continues.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=38) You're not Persian. You're not Spartan. Sit.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=43) This is Leonidas, King of Sparta.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=51) Eat well. Tonight, we eat in Hades. He actually said this. Here's why.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=57) This morning, a local shepherd showed the Persians a secret path over the mountain. They're already behind us. Leonidas knows it.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=62) He just sent the other seven thousand home.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=64) He's staying.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=71) Before the battle, Xerxes sent a message, "Hand over your weapons."

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=74) Leonidas sent back two words, "Molon labe".

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=77) Come and take them.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=80) Go home. Tell them what you saw.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=90) By tonight, all of them are dead. Today, there's a stone at this spot.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5RqgDYZPg2G9/en/battle-of-thermopylae-leonidas-and-the-300-spartans?t=94) It says, "Go tell the Spartans we did our duty."