TY - ADVS TI - The 300 Spartans SN - MED0000493(Local) PY - 2004/// PB - Beverly Hills, Calif., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Sparta (Extinct city) KW - History KW - Drama KW - Greece KW - Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C N1 - Library internal view only; Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; editor, Jerome Webb ; music, Manos Hadjidakis; Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar, Donald Houston, Anna Synodinou, Kieron Moore, John Crawford, Robert Brown, Laurence Naismith, Anne Wakefield N2 - In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians ER -