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The Comic Book Origin of Zack Snyder's 300, Explained
But 300 didn't just spring to life on the big-screen. For its origins as a cinematic adventure which looks and sounds the way it does, we have to go back, not necessarily all the way to Ancient Sparta ...
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Bred for Battle—Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine
An efficient military machine in almost every other ... Each year the ephors, or magistrates, chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis—elite soldiers who formed the king ...