07-17-2007, 07:09 PM
The loss/recovery of the body might be "poetic description" by Herodotus.
If you go to this thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=17139
you will see a reconstruction of the Spartan battle line.
If Leonidas was hit his 2 bodyguards would push-shove for enough tine to give the rear rankers space for taking the body back draging it almost vertically. I cant think of a pure "Homeric" encounter
The Spartan line of thought was more ""bloodyminded" compared to the rest of the Greeks, that why Sfacteria was a shock.
Kind regards
If you go to this thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=17139
you will see a reconstruction of the Spartan battle line.
If Leonidas was hit his 2 bodyguards would push-shove for enough tine to give the rear rankers space for taking the body back draging it almost vertically. I cant think of a pure "Homeric" encounter
The Spartan line of thought was more ""bloodyminded" compared to the rest of the Greeks, that why Sfacteria was a shock.
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
