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Despite the ancient Greek equivalent of an Agincourt, the Greek military mind firmly retained the heavy infantry, rather than the archers, as the main force. Recognized uses of the archer in Greek warfare were to fend off heights of city walls, to perform commando raids, and to provide covering fire for commando-style operations. This essay, written after a fresh reading of the principle Greek historians, puts together all passages where one can see the ancient Greek archer at work and in his military setting
Archers are very uncommon in Greek classical culture, as the bow is usually considered an inferior a...
My Phd project currently in progress concerns bows and archers in Greek archaic poetry, in a compara...
The study presents a novel approach to the longstanding debate regarding the presence of hoplite or ...
Despite the ancient Greek equivalent of an Agincourt, the Greek military mind firmly retained the he...
The armed forces that Athens took into the Peloponnesian War had four distinct corps. The two that h...
The relief, republished in the present article in the form of a joint archaeological and historical ...
The equites sagittarii formed a considerable force in the auxilia of the early and middle empire, bu...
The ancient Greek hoplites were heavily armed infantry soldiers, known for wearing extensive armor, ...
The evidence presented in this essay leads to the conclusion that the Greek charge at Marathon was n...
My dissertation focuses on weaponry in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), with an empha...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the developing roles, tactics, and fighting methods of javel...
Ancient Greece, being in a crossroad between the Eastern World and the Western World, occupies an am...
When javelin throwers are told to be ready, Xenophon\u27s phrasing appears, for instance, He ordere...
In Greek antiquity, gravity, actuated by archers on city walls, turned many a tide, as victorious be...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
Archers are very uncommon in Greek classical culture, as the bow is usually considered an inferior a...
My Phd project currently in progress concerns bows and archers in Greek archaic poetry, in a compara...
The study presents a novel approach to the longstanding debate regarding the presence of hoplite or ...
Despite the ancient Greek equivalent of an Agincourt, the Greek military mind firmly retained the he...
The armed forces that Athens took into the Peloponnesian War had four distinct corps. The two that h...
The relief, republished in the present article in the form of a joint archaeological and historical ...
The equites sagittarii formed a considerable force in the auxilia of the early and middle empire, bu...
The ancient Greek hoplites were heavily armed infantry soldiers, known for wearing extensive armor, ...
The evidence presented in this essay leads to the conclusion that the Greek charge at Marathon was n...
My dissertation focuses on weaponry in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), with an empha...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the developing roles, tactics, and fighting methods of javel...
Ancient Greece, being in a crossroad between the Eastern World and the Western World, occupies an am...
When javelin throwers are told to be ready, Xenophon\u27s phrasing appears, for instance, He ordere...
In Greek antiquity, gravity, actuated by archers on city walls, turned many a tide, as victorious be...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
Archers are very uncommon in Greek classical culture, as the bow is usually considered an inferior a...
My Phd project currently in progress concerns bows and archers in Greek archaic poetry, in a compara...
The study presents a novel approach to the longstanding debate regarding the presence of hoplite or ...
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