Granger/ACI No Persian account of the epic battle has survived, and many statistics related to it remain hazy. The number of troops under Xerxes’ command, for instance, is the subject of endless ...

Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the ...

Additionally, the project has been retitled from Xerxes (the original Frank Miller graphic novel title) to 300: Battle of Artemisia, to connect it more with the first movie. The aim is to shoot ...

Despite having won some battles, Xerxes failed in the end to conquer Greece and in 479 BCE, after his governor Mardonius was defeated at the Battle of Plataea, his forces returned home.