The pop-culture dramatization of the Battle of Thermopylae in Zack Snyder’s film ‘300’ has ingrained in impressionable young minds that Spartans are all rosy-white-skinned, Anglo-Saxon-faced and excessively muscular, but that is not entirely true. Despite actual losing that iconic battle, people still idealize Spartans as the perfect warrior, perhaps due to their undying tenacity to stand against a larger army. People also often forget that there were almost 7000 other non-Spartan Greek soldiers taking part in the battle.