Who was the hunchback in 300?
How did Spartans speak?
What is a Sparta kick?
Spartan King Leonidas : [his last lines] My Queen! My wife. My love Xerxes : It isn’t wise to stand against me, Leonidas….
Where is the quote This is Sparta from?
noun. an ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus, at one time the dominant city of Greece: famous for strict discipline and training of soldiers.
Leonidas tells the hunchback, “You there, Ephialtes, may you live forever.” This does not appear to be well wishing borne of forgiveness, but a peculiar curse relating to the presumed impossibility of Ephialtes dying honorably as was the ultimate glory in martial Sparta. Throughout 300, disability is reviled.
Was the hunchback in 300 real?
Ephialtes
