07-05-2010, 10:30 PM
Great comments guys! Thats what I love about RAT! 
I agree with everyone so far, especially Giannis' comment on the scale and ferocity of the combat, this was no small skirmish!!
Herodotus adds a bit of a twist to his narrative, he claims the Greeks at Mykale were inspired by news of victory at Plataea, fought on that very day! This seems unlikely at best, maybe not impossible but certainly improbable.
Opinions?
I agree with everyone so far, especially Giannis' comment on the scale and ferocity of the combat, this was no small skirmish!!
Herodotus adds a bit of a twist to his narrative, he claims the Greeks at Mykale were inspired by news of victory at Plataea, fought on that very day! This seems unlikely at best, maybe not impossible but certainly improbable.
Opinions?
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
