Looks pretty rad! Thanks for the link.
some lines from "300":
Leonidas, Spartan King: Then the army is as enormous as they say?
Agathon the Spartan Spy: Leonidas, it is bigger than anything you can imagine. For six days, I watched them pass. Six days! I ran out of numbers and still more of them came. They're drinking the rivers dry. And at night there are more of their campfires than there are stars in the sky!
Leonidas, Spartan King: Good. When I was a boy, I always wanted to reach the stars with my spear.
Also:
After a morning of fighting at Thermopylae Leonidas meets Xerxes
Xerxes, Persian leader: Leonidas. Let us reason together. It would be a regrettable waste -- it would be nothing short of madness -- were you and your valiant troops to perish. All because of a simple avoidable misunderstanding.
Leonidas, Spartan King: Do not lose sleep worrying over us. We are having the time of our lives.
Xerxes, Persian leader: Brave words. Spartan words. It is a fascinating tribe. There is much our cultures could share.
Leonidas, Spartan King: We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
for a full treatment, read Pressfield's
book "Gates of Fire".
The
1962 movie version of the story pretty good too.