King Leonidas

Phillip Zellner (center), aka King Leonidas, is fired up and ready to lead the The Cassell Guard Generals before a Virginia Tech basketball game.

The Roanoke Times: Home page 2009

The real story goes that King Leonidas was one of the first that fell in the last skirmish and while his men tried to protect his body from being stolen, they retreated to a little mound/hill thing and were all brought down in a hail of arrows.

Zack Snyder Reveals Story Details for 300 Sequel « FirstShowing.net 2008

FROM SPLASH PAGE: By the end of "300," the Persians had won, the Hot Gates were passed, and King Leonidas and his men, each and every one save Dilios the Storyteller, were killed.

Frank Miller On ‘300’ Prequel: ‘I Know Nothing’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008

By the end of “300,” the Persians had won, the Hot Gates were passed, and King Leonidas and his men, each and every one save Dilios the Storyteller, were killed.

Frank Miller On ‘300’ Prequel: ‘I Know Nothing’ 2008

Of this collective project Book VII — including the famous defense of the pass at Thermopylae by King Leonidas of Sparta and his three hundred picked warriors (an episode recently popularized, and travestied, by the movie 300) — has yet to appear, while some of its later volumes were, to put it politely, of less than stellar quality.

The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008

Or so says King Leonidas in the preview for the upcoming Meet the Spartans, my self-appointed review for which will be up at Slant Magazine some time later this weekend.

You Got Served 2008

Or so says King Leonidas in the preview for the upcoming Meet the Spartans, my self-appointed review for which will be up at Slant Magazine some time later this weekend.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Inspired by Grey (she suggested a Gerard Butler looking baby) and by Danny, who suggested King Leonidas.

dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

In defiance of their objections, King Leonidas and 300 of his men go off to battle Xerxes and the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae, with the help of some other Greek volunteers.

Archive 2007-03-01 The_Lex 2007

But I do know the history behind the graphic novel that inspired the movie and it comes a little surprise that some liberal film critics, as documented by Megan Basham and David Kahane, are calling it a movie that glorifies war, that has a political stance that is unpopular today because King Leonidas reminds reviewers too much of President Bush and story line that is achingly familiar.

Criticisms of 300: When History, Morality and Human Nature Collide Matt Johnston 2007