01-29-2009, 08:31 PM
According to ancient military writers like Polybius and Xenophon, hunting is extremely useful in military training. But the modern researchers (like the authors in Cambridge Ancient Military History) think that this point of view only reflected Greek aristocratic ethos and that hunting do not help much in preparing to war in ancient times. Which point of view is true?
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