Spartan Mora regiments at Battle of Plataea

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Personally I belive that most fortifications of the classical perios would be haphazzard field works

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That would certainly describe the ramshackle ditch and pallisade that failed to keep out Epaminondas. Herodotus, though, describes a serious fortification made of stones, bricks, sand bags and having battlements. Increasingly it appears that it might not have been constructed at all or, at least, nothing like the way Herodotus describes it.

The fortifications of Athens, Megara, Corinth and other cities strike one as somewhat more than "haphazzard". Remnants of Athens' "long walls" survive; it is intriguing that absolutely nothing of Herodotus' battlement adorned Isthmian wall do not - or that it is never mentioned after the Spartans march into Boeotia.