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300 is a 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley. The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta .
Gorgo arrives at the battle along with ships from numerous Greek city-states including Delphi, Thebes, Olympia, Arcadia, and Sparta, all united against the Persians. Xerxes, watching the battle from a cliff, turns back, acknowledging his naval defeat and continuing the march of his army. Artemisia attacks Themistocles, but he stabs and kills her.
The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and others, and the Persian Empire of ...
The Artemisia Cultural Association of the municipality of Nea Alikarnassos in Crete, founded in 1979, is named after Queen Artemisia. [57] In the 1962 film, The 300 Spartans, Artemisia is portrayed by Anne Wakefield. Artemisia appears in Gore Vidal's 1981 (and 2002 release) historical novel Creation. In Vidal's depiction, she had a long ...
Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, [7] [8] [9] or simply Xerxes, [10] [11] is a 2018 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Acting as both a prequel and sequel to the events chronicled in Miller's earlier series 300 , a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae ...
Out of the 50 books I finished this year, these are the ones I loved so much I couldn’t stop talking about them. Some of these are older releases and some were published in 2024, but all of them ...
About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore ? Quite a bit, it turns out, particularly regarding the bloodiest battle of the war and ...
The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic historical drama film [1] depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It was directed by Rudolph Maté and stars Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, David Farrar, Diane Baker and Barry Coe. Produced with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was filmed in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. [2]