Spartan - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

  • Spartan (comics), Wildstorm comic book character
  • Spartan (film), written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer
  • Spartan (book), the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
  • The SPARTAN Project, a story element in the Halo series of games
  • Roderick Bradley, who competes as "Spartan", a gladiator in the UK TV series Gladiators
  • 300, a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The plot revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), who leads 300 Spartans into battle against Persian "god-King" Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his army of more than one million soldiers. As the battle rages, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) attempts to rally support in Sparta for her husband. The story is framed by a voice-over narrative by a Spartan soldier.

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