07-16-2012, 03:39 AM
Peter and Macedon,
Not enough time for a detailed reply today but one thing I would like to touch on. In no way do I support the idea that the Persians had an army of 4,200,000 men. What I wanted to highlight is that the many methodologies modern authors use to estimate the Persian army size can be misleading or as Macedon puts it, "The problem with many historians is that they follow the lead of men who wrote in the late 1800s, early 1900s, when there was a feeling that the world had a linear evolution regarding technology, populations etc."
Matt
Not enough time for a detailed reply today but one thing I would like to touch on. In no way do I support the idea that the Persians had an army of 4,200,000 men. What I wanted to highlight is that the many methodologies modern authors use to estimate the Persian army size can be misleading or as Macedon puts it, "The problem with many historians is that they follow the lead of men who wrote in the late 1800s, early 1900s, when there was a feeling that the world had a linear evolution regarding technology, populations etc."
Matt
