During a break in the fighting, Xerxes meets with Leonidas and offers wealth and power in exchange for his surrender. The Spartans and their allies successfully hold off the Persians for two days and nights. Ephialtes becomes despondent due to Leonidas' refusal and throws himself off a cliff. The terrain prevents the Greeks from being overwhelmed by Xerxes' superior numbers (a military tactic usually called " defeat in detail").īefore the battle starts, Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan, begs Leonidas to let him fight but is rejected due to his hunchbacked form, which prevents him from lifting his shield high enough to be of use for the phalanx. In what is likely a suicide mission, they and their allies plan to stop King Xerxes' invasion of Greece at the narrow cliffs of the "Hot Gates" ( Thermopylae). In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta gathers 300 of his best men to fight the upcoming Persian invasion. This is in addition to the 88,000 copies already sold since the initial volume was released in 1999. The 10th printing had an announced print run of 40,000 copies, with an 11th printing to follow. The popularity of the film has boosted sales of the trade paperback edition.
The work was collected as a hardcover volume in 1999. The series won three Eisner Awards in 1999: "Best Limited Series", "Best Writer/Artist" for Frank Miller and "Best Colorist" for Lynn Varley. The issues were titled Honor, Duty, Glory, Combat and Victory. Miller's art style for this project was similar to his Sin City work, although the addition of consistent color is an obvious difference.ģ00 was initially published as a monthly five-issue comic book limited series by Dark Horse Comics, the first issue published in May 1998.
When the series was gathered into hardcover form, the individual pages were twice as wide as a normal comic.
In 2018, Dark Horse published Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, also written and drawn by Miller, acting as a prequel and sequel to the events of 300, depicting Xerxes I's rise to the throne, and the subsequent destruction of the Persian Empire under his descendant Darius III, by Alexander the Great.Įach page of the novel is illustrated as a double-page spread. The work was adapted in 2006 to a film of the same name. 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, a film Miller watched as a young boy.
The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta. 300 is a historically inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley.
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