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If we didn't stop the Persians twice back then! The Persians would of conquer the rest of Europe and the root of history and countries would of never existed ! Fact not an assumption !! Themistocles – Leonidas -Alexander the great for us as a nation united in nowadays have been voted as the most important general's in owr history ever!!!
I think at some point you need to make a video with the help of a Greek historian professor that knows how to analyze ancient Greek writing about the Persian war events exactly how and what really happened !its a great video don't get me wrong but its like me a spartan Greek trying to tell you the story of the American revolution and how it happened ! Obviously I can not cause I'm not an American and I can't have all the information than an American historian professor!
I don't mean you buddy you did great and I thank you for ur comments !I mean the person's at Epic history TV!! The modern historian's don't have a clue of translating the ancient writings proprer! Or think like the Ancient Greeks would !Especially from British universities who like to debunk everybody's history to their own measure of thinking!
From Sparta the land of the brave warriors I salute yous!
I am Greek there is better think from your baby at the video.god bless it
Artemisia was smart
The oracle was right. The wooden wall saved them😉
Cavo d' Oro or Cape Kafireas is notorious even today for the bad weather
That was so good
Battle of Marathon was the first time Persians were defeated by Greeks, an excellent strategic Π scheme from Miltiades.
U ld be surprised hoplites always took very low casualties. According to the sources in a force of 10000 people from Athens there were= +-200 casualties among the athenians. Where as the persians lost 1/3 of their force 6000 people. The grave of thise athenians is down by the road to mt home and even has their names on it.
The million of Persians comes out of the calculation of the regiment the Greeks were spying on march . 100*myrioi ( myrioi for the Greeks was standard term for 10000men ) but we do not know how those regiments were formed. Example the Romans would use sub units of 80men(100*80=8000) but when you watch it from a distance you call it myrioi (10000).
The phalanx of that period allowed the swapping of rows, the soldier behind you brings his shield from your left to the place where you hold yours and at the same time you go to the back row to rest and go into the fight again ( in theory )
The battle of Plateaus the greatest slaughter of the Persians took place. Within one day,150 thousands Persians and the allies were slaughtered !
There is the battle of platea, that was the biggest battle ever,,, and the death of Persian campaigns trying to invade Greece again.,
In the battle of salami the spartan king did an amazing trick, when the two fleets met in open sea, he ordered the Greek oar men to oar backward, so when they met it would be in the norrow gulf of salamis!!! I think this was epic tactic, the navy of the Persians was Comercial fleet from the ionian islands, not war ships,,, so no way they would face real battle ships
As far of your question, the ones in front line didn't die nesesarily, they had war tactics, there would be new soldiers coming forward to relive the front line, the armor of soldier was weight 35 kilos… None would have been to fight for more than 20"30 minutes, and they did have strategy. The battle was won because in marathon they had a brilliant tactic, only 192 atheneasx died.. That is unreal as a number.. And also think those people did the same thing every day,, they were hard working people, so hard work was a boost to their strength
so with 200 men per ship, pesians had 1000ships so 200000 people only in ships. so the numbers was more tha 200000 that some historians said
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– that's when they invented the "it's the greatest honor to die for your country" – still used today. lol (j/k)
– since you mentioned deaths, I think only 192 Greeks died in that battle in Marathon
– the Persians were disorganized in Marathon, it was easy for the Greeks to defeat them.
– in some cases (not in Marathon because it was a quick battle) the phalanx front row will swap with the other rows and move back for rest. the battles were not always as we believe "whoever kills the other first wins and it's over", some enemy phalanxes retreat, others become disorganized, a bit of skirmishes, which gives the opportunity for minor rests or tactical maneuvers etc, until they reorganize and continue the fight.
in the case of Marathon, the Greek central phalanxes were tactically weaker than the wings, they were moving backwards (like a tactical slow retreat) drawing the Persians inwards, while the wings were stronger and pushed forward, which allowed the Greeks to encircle the Persians… some ran for the beach to their ships, others who escaped got stuck in the swamps nearby – it was a massacre.
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As the years go buy, the num,ber of the Perians becomes less and less to minimize the Greek victory.
Not so. The Athenians were armored from head to toe and covered eachotyher with interlocking sheelds. They relyed on shock attack. the Perisans had few line spearmen in three ranks and nothing but archers in the rear. The archer range was around 200 feet. So the Athenians ran toward them taking very few casualties. The Athenians also made their ranks ten men deep on the ends and only four men deep in the middle. Giving way in the center, they charged the ends and surrounded the Persians. In the end, 170 or so greeks died to 6000 persians. Armored infantry beats light infantry any day.
11:50 First person that I've seen on youtube that got the advantage of city state conflict.