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Xerxes:
There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories! Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian, and every scribe shall have their eyes pulled out, and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta, or Leonidas, will be punishable by death! The world will never know you existed at all! King Leonidas:
The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed
There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories! Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian, and every scribe shall have their eyes pulled out, and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta, or Leonidas, will be punishable by death! The world will never know you existed at all! King Leonidas:
The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed
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There will be no glory in your sacrifice
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I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories
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Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned
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Every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out
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and their tongues cut from their mouths
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Why uttering the very name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death
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The world will never know you existed at all
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The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant
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Movie Summary
King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

