07-05-2006, 12:50 PM
Not only the Spartans-almost everybody.
Your conclusions are correct in my opinion.
Example: 400 out of 700 Thespians dead at Delion. If 150 of them were artisans, not only the weapons teqhnics would suffer but the economy as well.
Thebans drove them out of their land a few years later because the couldn´t proprly equip their army. Many ancient cities suffered similarly.
Kind regards
Your conclusions are correct in my opinion.
Example: 400 out of 700 Thespians dead at Delion. If 150 of them were artisans, not only the weapons teqhnics would suffer but the economy as well.
Thebans drove them out of their land a few years later because the couldn´t proprly equip their army. Many ancient cities suffered similarly.
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com