Hello and welcome to the 10th episode of Ancient Warfare Answers.

My name is Jasper Orthaus. I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine and with me is Murray Daam.

My deputy editor or assistant editor, maybe we'll find a fancier title for him someday.

For this 10th episode, we are going to the endlessly popular topic of the Spartans.

Austin Gunther asked, did Sparta in the last days of her glory and independence use

homegrown phalangiates in our military?

And if so, do we know of any battles they fought in, possibly that they use a mixed force of phyngites and haplights towards the very end?

Murray, it's over to you.

Well, unlike our last episode where we were both definitive nose, the answer this time is the opposite.

We have a definitive yes.

They did adopt the Macedonian phalanx at some point.

Although it's problematic in terms of

a how long did the typical hoplight classical hoplight phalanx last and how long you know did it

take for certain cultures to adopt the Macedonian phalanx and fight in that style.

And the issue, the issue, of course, of training and all sorts of other interesting things.

The other issue, of course, is the last days of Sparta's glory, depending on your viewpoint

on Sparta, that could be much, much earlier in time, whether it's, you know, 362 when it finishes, or

371 when it finishes, or even, you know, some people who argue about the oligantropia,

the manpower shortage in Sparta would argue that even in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta is far from the powerhouse that she was,

even though she remains the natural leader of Greece and that, you know,

all of the Persian satraps and Persian envoys come to Sparta to talk about the King's Peace and things like that.

So Sparta eventually does. So we've got evidence

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