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I come to you as a wife.
I come to you as a Spartan woman.
I come to you with great humility.
I am not here to represent Leonidas.
than my words ever could.
I am here for all those voices
which cannot be heard.
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.
Three hundred families
that bleed for our rights...
...and for the very principles
this room was built upon.
We are at war, gentlemen.
We must send the entire Spartan army
to aid our king...
...in the preservation of not
just ourselves, but of our children.
Send the army
for the preservation of liberty.
Send it for justice.
Send it for law and order.
Send it for reason.
But most importantly,
send our army for hope.
Hope that a king and his men have not
been wasted to the pages of history.
That their courage bonds us together.
That we are made stronger
by their actions...
...and that your choices today
reflect their bravery.
Three hundred.
We must send them.
Moving...
...eloquent, passionate.
But it doesn't change the fact
that your husband has brought war upon us.
You are wrong.
Xerxes brought it forth...
...and before that,
his father Darius at Marathon.
The Persians will not stop...
...until the only shelter we will find
is rubble and chaos.
history lesson, my queen.
Then what is the lesson
you would like to leave?
Shall I begin to enumerate all of them?
Honor. Duty. Glory.
You speak of honor, duty and glory?
But what of adultery?
- How dare you.
- How dare I?
Watch her carefully.
She is a trickster in true form.
Do not play with the members
of this sacred chamber, my queen.
Just hours ago,
Were I a weaker man,
I would have her scent on me still.
- This is outrage.
- Oh, the hypocrite speaks!
Did you not receive a similar payment,
which you took...
...in exchange for her having an audience
- That is a lie.
- Is it?
Was he not, by your invitation,
asked to come to the king's bedchamber?
The very bed where you attempted
to negotiate with me so vigorously?
You look shocked.
A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen...
...while her husband
promotes anarchy and war.
He speaks truth.
Words escape
even the most cunning tongue...
What queen-like behavior.
Remove her from this chamber
before she infects us further...
...with her inglorious and shabby self.
This will not be over quickly.
You will not enjoy this.
I am not your queen.
Traitor.
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
Traitor!
Leonidas, my compliments
and congratulations.
You surely have turned calamity
into victory.
Despite your insufferable arrogance...
...the god-king has come to admire
Spartan valor and fighting skill.
You will make a mighty ally.
Yield, Leonidas.
Use your reason. Think of your men.
I beg you.
Listen to your fellow Greek.
He can attest
to the divine one's generosity.
Despite your several insults,
despite your horrid blasphemies...
...the lord of hosts
...and more, to reward your service.
You fight for your lands.
Keep them.
You fight for Sparta.
She will be wealthier and more powerful
than ever before.
You fight for your kingship.
You will be proclaimed warlord
of all Greece...
...answerable only
to the one true master of the world.
Leonidas, your victory will be complete...
...if you but lay down your arms...
...and kneel to holy Xerxes.
since the wolf in the winter cold.
And now, as then,
it's not fear that grips him...
...only restlessness.
A heightened sense of things.
The seaborne breeze coolly kissing
the sweat at his chest and neck.
Gulls cawing...
...complaining even as they feast
on the thousands of floating dead.
The steady breathing
...ready to die for him
without a moment's pause.
Every one of them...
...ready to die.
His helmet is stifling.
His shield is heavy.
Your spear.
You there...
...Ephialtes.
May you live forever.
Leonidas, your spear.
Stelios!
Slaughter them!
His helmet was stifling.
It narrowed his vision,
and he must see far.
His shield was heavy.
It threw him off balance...
...and his target is far away.
The old ones say we Spartans are
descended from Hercules himself.
to our bloodline.
His roar is long and loud.
My king.
It's an honor to die at your side.
It's an honor to have lived at yours.
My queen!
My wife.
My love.
"Remember us."
As simple an order
as a king can give.
"Remember why we died."
For he did not wish tribute or song...
...nor monuments,
nor poems of war and valor.
His wish was simple.
"Remember us"...
...he said to me.
That was his hope.
Should any free soul
come across that place...
...in all the countless
centuries yet to be...
...may all our voices...
...whisper to you
from the ageless stones.
Go tell the Spartans, passerby...
...that here, by Spartan law,
we lie.
And so my king died...
...and my brothers died...
...barely a year ago.
Long I pondered my king's
cryptic talk of victory.
Time has proven him wise.
For from free Greek to free Greek...
...the word was spread
...so far from home...
...laid down their lives
not just for Sparta...
...but for all Greece
and the promise this country holds.
Now, here on this rugged patch of earth
called Plataea...
...Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!
Just there the barbarians huddle...
...sheer terror gripping tight
their hearts...
...with icy fingers...
...knowing full well
what merciless horrors they suffered...
Yet they stare now across the plain
Good odds for any Greek.
This day, we rescue a world
from mysticism and tyranny...
...and usher in a future
brighter than anything we can imagine.
Give thanks, men...
To Victory!
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