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DZ Season 063 Part 40. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – And Suddenly They Could Take No More.

DZ Season 063 Part 40. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – And Suddenly They Could Take No More.

Update: 2025-06-11
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A truly fearsome and courageous Greek hoplite and also one of the greatest philosopher’s of all time, was described in a song as a lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed? Who was he?

Tag words: Greek hoplite; phalanx; Anthony Kellett; Combat Motivation: The Behaviour of Soldiers in Battle; Victor Davis Hanson; The Western Way of War; Xenophon; pike; Alexander the Great; Imperial Roman legions; Agincourt; Thucydides; othismos aspidon; the push of shields; Spartans; Swiss pikemen; rout; The Philosopher’s Song – Monty Python

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DZ Season 063 Part 40. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – And Suddenly They Could Take No More.

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