This rare but excellent documentary explores life in the great ancient city-state of Sparta and its legendary clash with Persia in 480 BC. Uploaded for educational .

We ask Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire, War of Art, Warrior Ethos and many others what we can learn from the .

480 B.C. King Xerxes of Persia wants to add Greece to his vast eastern empire. If he succeeds, western civilization will be crushed in its cradle and with it .