08-16-2015, 06:05 PM
I just finished rewatching the movie Alexander, one scene in particular had me scratching my head. After the battle of Gaugamela, when Alexander is walking around the field hospital, he finds a young Illyrian soldier badly wounded. They talk and a physical walks over, puts a spike against the back of the soldier's head and slams it with a hammer, separating his spinal cord, killing him.
I get that mercy killing and warfare go hand and hand, especially in the ancient period when medicine could do little to save anyone from battlefield wounds or even blunt their pain effectively. But was there any evidence that the Greeks or Macedonians had a special tool for it?
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I get that mercy killing and warfare go hand and hand, especially in the ancient period when medicine could do little to save anyone from battlefield wounds or even blunt their pain effectively. But was there any evidence that the Greeks or Macedonians had a special tool for it?
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