00:00The greatest soldiers in history were defeated by the worst traitor of the ancient world.
00:08480 BC, ancient Greece.
00:11Sparta prepares for the greatest battle in its history against the vast Persian army.
00:16Among those who want to fight is a man named Ephialtes.
00:20He dreams of standing with the warriors of Sparta, but when he offers himself, they laugh at him.
00:26Too weak, unfit for their ranks, he is cast aside, humiliated.
00:32Days later, at Thermopylae, the Spartans hold back the Persian army for two days straight.
00:37Shield to shield, they look unbreakable.
00:40Victory seems possible.
00:42But the man they rejected is the one that ends them.
00:48Ephialtes knows a secret path through the mountains.
00:51He leads the Persians behind the Spartan line.
00:53By dawn, the Spartans are surrounded, their legendary stand destroyed not by strength, but by betrayal.
01:00The Persians rewarded him, but across Greece, his name was cursed.
01:04And history remembers him not as a warrior, but as the traitor who brought down Sparta's finest.
01:11This is just one story out of a thousand, waiting in the shadows of history.
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