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380 pages : map ; 25 cm
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English
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"On a cold night, at the outskirts of a peasant village, two Spartan youths wait to perform an ancient rite of passage. A family -- father, mother, and their son -- approaches, unarmed and defenseless. The young men step into the moonlight and claim their manhood by killing the adults. The boy escapes. The Spartans have no idea how terrible an enemy they have called forth. Nothing could have prepared them for the boy, Protos, whose name means "destined,"...
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
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