# Leonidas and the 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120524408422871409
- Source account: [@jvalenz68](https://x.com/jvalenz68)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:39
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae

## Transcript

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=3) This is Thermopylae, Greece, 480 BC. That's the Persian army, and this is the only road into Greece.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=10) It's 15 meters wide, mountain on one side, sea on the other.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=14) So it doesn't matter how many they have, only the front row can fight.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=18) Forward!

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=26) Quick fact: it's not 300. There are 7,000 Greeks here.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=30) The 300 are the king's bodyguard, and every one of them was picked because he already had a son, so if he dies, his family line continues.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=38) You're not Persian. You're not Spartan. Sit.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=43) This is Leonidas, King of Sparta.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=51) Eat well. Tonight, we eat in Hades. He actually said this. Here's why.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=57) This morning, a local shepherd showed the Persians a secret path over the mountain.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=60) They're already behind us. Leonidas knows it.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=62) He just sent the other 7,000 home. He's staying.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=71) Before the battle, Xerxes sent a message: "Hand over your weapons."

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=74) Leonidas sent back two words: "Molon labe."

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=77) Come and take them.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=80) Go home. Tell them what you saw.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=90) By tonight, all of them are dead. Today, there's a stone at this spot.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wVNttVPeMF6I/en/leonidas-and-the-300-spartans-at-the-battle-of-thermopylae?t=94) It says, "Go tell the Spartans we did our duty."