Uni, when the Persians demanded they drop their weapons, Leonidas replied
"Come Get it."
He didn\'t say "Come get us".
I didn\'t enjoy "Alexander" but I sure as hell enjoyed 300. Despite it\'s inaccuracies. There were some truths: the Spartan elders didn\'t want all of their armies to fight since it was so close to some Spartan holy week or some sort.
Xerxes may have been a great leader to the Persians and was responsible for releasing the enslaved Israelites....but he was still the one who invaded Greece. So the hell with his great civilization. Sparta was Sparta. What else did you want to see? The ass fucking of the queen was good enough.