12-10-2009, 04:11 AM
Dear Scipio, you wrote; "Please delete your long and irrelevant posts, and then contribute in a meaningful way to the subject of 'Hippeis' ONLY, if you wish !" If you have noticed I have taken your kind advice and deleted my three long posts! But, there was a connection! And yes, the number of men in a number of famous units seems to be too often for chance, to have been 300!
Conversations concerning "Hippeis", over about 5 pages, continue the mention of 300 Hippeis on a regular basis, and there was even a few mentions of the 300 Spartans, vs the Persians, and whether they were actually "Hippeis", etc. It even seems the jury is still out on this subject! It seems in our history, the death of almost exactly 300 warriors has a lot of print dedicated to this very fact. As regards the famous account at Thermoplae, it seems there was another massacre of the 300 Fabians, in Veii, on exactly the same day, or at least very close to it! Other accounts preceed the Spartan one, such as that of the Phokians / Phocians, in the same area.
There was even the famous Catalan Company which, it seems had two distinct encounters with only 300 knights! There were about 300 Knights Templar killed in a battle in the Levant, at La Forbie and at Mansurah, and there are, it seems, a few other examples which can be accessed!
So, you see 300 is an almost magic number? Just what made it so? Other examples can be made available if anyone cares to see them.
Regards,
Ron
Conversations concerning "Hippeis", over about 5 pages, continue the mention of 300 Hippeis on a regular basis, and there was even a few mentions of the 300 Spartans, vs the Persians, and whether they were actually "Hippeis", etc. It even seems the jury is still out on this subject! It seems in our history, the death of almost exactly 300 warriors has a lot of print dedicated to this very fact. As regards the famous account at Thermoplae, it seems there was another massacre of the 300 Fabians, in Veii, on exactly the same day, or at least very close to it! Other accounts preceed the Spartan one, such as that of the Phokians / Phocians, in the same area.
There was even the famous Catalan Company which, it seems had two distinct encounters with only 300 knights! There were about 300 Knights Templar killed in a battle in the Levant, at La Forbie and at Mansurah, and there are, it seems, a few other examples which can be accessed!
So, you see 300 is an almost magic number? Just what made it so? Other examples can be made available if anyone cares to see them.
Regards,
Ron
