Hellets and the Athenians in Frank Miller's 300

Leonidas recruited thousands of greeks from various city states to fight the persians at themopole. He sent those thousand blokes up along this, a small mountain path that could have been used by xerxe's forces as they made their way across the mountains. And leonidas positioned the bulk of the greek forces with just the narrowest point of the narrowest part of the choke point. They get ready do to hunker down and defend this pass a positon. This staggeringly large army had finally come. But how large, you're probably wondering. It's difficult to say. Some historians think that herodotus actually misinterpreted persian numbers when