Warfare in Ancient Greece
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How did warfare work in Ancient Greece? The weapons and armour of the Greek hoplite are legendary, as are the warrior cultures of city-states like Sparta. But how would a Greek battle have played out on the ground?
Dan is joined by Roel Konijnendijk, Darby Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and an expert in warfare in the Greek world. Roel explains how a Greek army operated, and takes us through some of the most decisive pitched battles of the period.
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| 1:07.0 | Hi everybody, welcome Dan Snow's history. We're going to do a deep dive into |
| 1:16.4 | ancient Greek warfare, specifically the warfare that you might have seen portrayed |
| 1:19.9 | in the movies like 300, this classical era, fifth, fourth century BC, Athenian warfare, |
| 1:27.3 | in which reasonably heavy armed infantry known as hoplites fought at close quarters with both foreign enemies and other Greek competitors. |
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