[Perdogg]

"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed."

"Immortals... we put their name to the test."

"Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he did not wish tribute, nor song, nor monuments nor poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

To all: the actual liberty-lovin’ volunteer force which made the difference fought at Salamis. They broke the Persian navy and made possible the land victory the following year. During the first invasion by the Persians, the Spartans did nothing, refusing to send a single soldier, and so Athens and others had to defend all of Greece, and won, at Marathon.

The real Spartans were nothing like the movie.