"Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World"

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Except the Spartans were other Lakonians. So it was possible among them to be Krypteia elements pretenting to be perioikoi or aditional Skiritae.
The night raid that Diodorus talks about was in the ability of the Spartans army. Is likely that it happened but not the way the old film showed it.
In the Greek text 7.202.1 Herodotus talks specificaly about hoplitae when he refers to spartans and generaly about the forces of others. Is is implied(?) that they were hopltes or we assume it. In 7.203.1 he talks about Lokrians PANSTRATIA = full force and 1000 Phokians.
I am stil researching it but the armies of the ragged regions of Central Greece were not as "heavy" as the Pelloponisians Beotians or Athenians.

The truth is that the battle of Annopaea was not been examined as it should.
Throug out its history the pass of Thrmopylae has been compromised onlly by a flanking movement.

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