07-24-2006, 04:25 PM
I've read that the Phocians WERE Hoplites...
Of course, our dear Stefanos, is in a middle of a huge research for my BELOVED Spartans, so... he may found something interesting, something else...
About King Leonidas and the Phocians as garrison in the Pass...
I DON'T believe he made any mistake! Have you been in the mountain, around Thermopylae's area? Is VERY hard to pass it and narrow...
So, even few hoplites, would crashed ANYONE trying to pass them...
BUT!!! Phocians, first of all, got themselves SURPRISED by the "Immortal" appearance... and second and MOST important, the Phocians, even surpised, took fast their arms and embattle themselves... but made a HUGE mistake! The Persians started shooting them with the bows and the Phocians withdraw to a hill, to make their last stand and die to the last!
But Persians DIDN'T want to fight them! Their goal was ONLY to PASS around the Greek lines and attacking them from the rear!
So they did! And Phocians did HUGE TACTICAL mistake, by withraw to the hill...
Regards...
Of course, our dear Stefanos, is in a middle of a huge research for my BELOVED Spartans, so... he may found something interesting, something else...
About King Leonidas and the Phocians as garrison in the Pass...
I DON'T believe he made any mistake! Have you been in the mountain, around Thermopylae's area? Is VERY hard to pass it and narrow...
So, even few hoplites, would crashed ANYONE trying to pass them...
BUT!!! Phocians, first of all, got themselves SURPRISED by the "Immortal" appearance... and second and MOST important, the Phocians, even surpised, took fast their arms and embattle themselves... but made a HUGE mistake! The Persians started shooting them with the bows and the Phocians withdraw to a hill, to make their last stand and die to the last!
But Persians DIDN'T want to fight them! Their goal was ONLY to PASS around the Greek lines and attacking them from the rear!
So they did! And Phocians did HUGE TACTICAL mistake, by withraw to the hill...
Regards...
aka Romilos
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
