
300: Rise of an Empire
The oracle's words
stand as a warning.
A prophecy.
"Sparta will fall. All
of Greece will fall."
And Persian fire will
reduce Athens to cinder.
For Athens is a pile of stone
and wood and cloth and dust.
And as dust, will
vanish into the wind.
Only the Athenians
themselves exist.
And the fate of the world hangs
Only the Athenians exist.
And only stout wooden
ships can save them.
Wooden ships...
And a tidal wave of heroes' blood.
Leonidas, my husband...
Leonidas, your king...
Leonidas and the
brave 300 are dead.
The free men and women of Greece
are not bound by a
beautiful spartan death.
War is not their love.
Yet he lay down his life for them.
'Tis our enemies who
forged our freedom
in the fires of war.
It was king Darius who
came to take our land.
Ten years ago,
when youth still
burned in our eyes,
before this bitter war forced
Ten years ago,
this war began as all wars begin:
With a grievance.
Marathon.
The Persian king, Darius,
annoyed by the notion
of Greek freedom,
has come to Greece
to bring us to heel.
the field of marathon
with an invading force which outnumbers
the Greek defenders three to one.
And so at dawn, the hopeless
Athenians do the unthinkable.
They attack.
They attack the weary Persians
on shaky legs after a month at sea.
They attack before they can establish
their war camp and supply their soldiers.
And who is the architect
of this mad strategy?
A little-known Athenian soldier.
His men call him Themistokles.
All thoughts of glory are gone.
Thousands dead.
Hundreds of them their own.
All for an idea:
A free Greece...
An Athenian experiment
called "democracy."
Could this idea be worth it?
Worth all this sacrifice?
Themistokles would let the
good king Darius decide.
For through the chaos
a moment appeared.
And Themistokles would seize it.
across the centuries.
him from simple soldier
to the height of Athenian
political power.
No!
Themistokles a legend.
Yet even as the praise and
glory were heaped upon him,
Themistokles knew in his
heart he had made a mistake.
It was Darius's son, Xerxes,
whose eyes had the stink
Themistokles knew he should
have killed that boy.
That glorious mistake
And so it was Themistokles himself
who sent a ripple across
the Persian empire
and set into motion forces that would
bring fire to the heart of Greece.
For as the good king lay dying,
all his greatest
generals and advisors
were summoned to his bedside.
None greater than his finest
naval commander, Artemisia.
Her ferocity bested
only by her beauty.
her devotion to her king.
Darius favored Artemisia
among his generals
for she had brought him
victory on the battlefield.
In her, he had the
perfect warrior protge
that his son Xerxes would never be.
So sweet, my child.
My sweet...
Child.
Father.
Xerxes.
Do not repeat your
father's mistake.
Leave the ignoble
Greeks to their ways.
Only the gods can defeat them.
Only... the gods.
For seven days, Xerxes mourned...
Paralyzed by grief.
On the eighth day,
Artemisia whispered
the seed of madness
Your father's words
were not a warning...
But a challenge.
Only the gods can
defeat the Greeks?
You will be a God-king.
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