Locals blushed and young women rushed to pull out their smartphones to snap some pics as the Chinese dudes left a trail of shirtless sexiness across the city's shopping district.
One of the Spartans said that they were parading around to convey a more healthy, natural and presumably barefoot lifestyle to locals... and, of course, to show off their hot bods.
The Spartans demonstrated their incredible bravery by taking a mall escalator ride.
The last time we saw Spartans in China, there was about as much strutting, but way more wrestling. In July, Beijing's Sanlitun village was invaded by a hundred laowai hunks dressed as Spartans by a local eatery for a promotional event.
Ovaries were set aflutter and it was fun and games until somebody called the cops. Leading to the most humiliating Spartan defeat since the Battle of Tegyra.
Look: 100 shirtless 'warriors' march through Beijing, get wrestled down by cops
Beijing's Sanlitun village was invaded by a hundred laowai hunks dressed up as Spartacus warriors by a local eatery for a promotional event yesterday.
Ovaries were set aflutter, and many pictures taken by bemused passersby. It was all fun and games until the cops showed up to break up the party for "obstructing traffic".
Apparently, event organizers had not applied for a permit.
Perhaps as the result of the heat combined with an overload of testosterone, the army of models seemed to get a bit out-of-hand, and police even ended up wrestling down two Spartans who were little too riled up.