04-22-2008, 04:54 AM
Quote:I believe the evidence of the captured numbers to be very strong evidence indeed that the Homioi and Perioikoi were already integrated within the enomotia by the time of Sphacteria (425 BC)
What I think speaks against this integration is the way "elite" units of other cities were formed. The Argive 1000 is a single unit, not a front and rear of the general levy. The Theban sacred band seems to be as well. There would seem to be an advantage to keeping the best trained hoplites in a single mass rather than sprinkling them along the front of a lesser body of men.
Quote:Not simply the double dealing to secure their release but the treatment of these individuals (as opposed to the survivors of Thermopylae) after their return.
I'm sure that if there had been hundreds of survivors of Thermopylae, the laws would have slept for a day as well.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
