Ephor
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The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta. They had an extensive range of judicial, religious, legislative, and military powers, and could shape Sparta's home and foreign affairs.
1862 imagining of the ephors
Ephor Brasidas during combat
300 (film)
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300 is a 2006 epic historical fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon. Based on the 1998 Dark Horse Comics limited series of t
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…as a constitutional court, the eforato, but the republic lasted only six months. Zack Snyder's 2007 film adaptation of the Battle of Thermopylae, 300 (also an adaptation of the comic book of the same title), depicts ephors as priestly class that exercise power by interpreting the words of the Oracle…
Theatrical release poster
Above: the film version compared to the 1998 comic (below)
Above: A scene during filming Below: The finished scene
Lena Headey at the London premiere, 2007