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DZ Season 063 Part 35. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – At the Run.

DZ Season 063 Part 35. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – At the Run.

Update: 2025-05-07
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As the two heavily armed and armoured phalanxes of Greeks finally collided to begin the decisive struggle to determine the victor, the sound made by that collision wasn’t the sound you would have expected. Very far from it. More of that later in the programme.

Tag words: Phalanx; charge; hoplite army; Victor Davis Hanson; The Western Way of War; Plutarch; Corinthian helmet; trot; Spartans; Thebans; Thucydides; History of the Peloponnesian War; Xenophon; Battle of Plataea; Persian troops; wicker shields; javelins; bows; slings; Tyrtaios;

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DZ Season 063 Part 35. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – At the Run.

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