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Cast
• King Leonidas, King of Sparta.
• Queen Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
• Pleistarchus, son of Leonidas and Gorgo
• Theron, a fictional corrupt Spartan politician
• Dilios, narrator and Spartan soldier.
• Captain Artemis, Leonidas' loyal captain and friend.
• Astinos, Captain Artemis' eldest son.
• Daxos, an Arcadian leader who joins forces with Leonidas.
• Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan outcast and traitor.
• King Xerxes, God-King of Persia
• The Loyalist, a loyal Spartan politician.
• Stelios, a young, spirited and highly skilled Spartan soldier.
• Persian messenger who tries to get Sparta to submit.
• Pythia, an Oracle to the Ephors.
• Tyler Neitzel as young Leonidas.
• Uber Immortal (giant), a muscular and deranged Immortal who battles Leonidas during the Immortal fight.
• Persian General who tries to get Leonidas to comply at the end of the battle.
• Executioner, a hulking, clawed man who executes men with whom Xerxes is displeased.

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Dilios, a Spartan soldier, narrates the story of Leonidas from his boyhood to becoming a king of Sparta. Years later, a Persian messenger arrives at the gates of Sparta, demanding the submission of Sparta to King Xerxes. In response to this …show more content…
Leonidas refuses, and with their tightly-knit phalanx formation, the Spartans use the narrow terrain to repeatedly rebuff the advancing Persian army. Xerxes personally parleys with Leonidas, offering him wealth and power in exchange for his loyalty and surrender. Leonidas declines, and Xerxes sends his elite guard, the formidable Immortals, to attack, but the Spartans successfully dispatch them, suffering a few casualties of their own. Xerxes then sends a number of exotic weapons at the Spartans, including black powder bombs and war elephants, but all of these attacks fail. During these attacks, Astinos is killed, which drives his father Captain Artemis into a fit of
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