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Athens and Inaros\'s Rebellion
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1500 hoplites with 1000 more only shield and spear Ekdromoi type from rowers seems reasonable. Most rowers would be psiloi-peltast when fighting on land. Do not forget Cretan archers. Possibly Inaros might used the Greek veterans like Cyrus did Xenophon's Myrrioi and used the Egyptian rebels to fill the gaps if he did not expected them to be of good quality.
Possibly the ships were loaded more than usual with troops and remeber the possible number of other vessels acompanying the triremes. 200 seem right for trirem more than 200 for merchant ships. Psiloi would love to get loot to establish themselves as middle class hoplites.
Rich persian cavlry in marshe infested with marroudinf psiloi-NO WAY-if they could help it.
The casualties that you discuss seem reasonable to me.
I agree with your Tercio commends.

The so called "erasmian pronounciation" has some logical base.
Ancient Greeks pronounced differently. H and Y were longer than I.
Ancient Greek teachers thought Music important to teaching and stressed ARMONIA (harmony). Ancient Greek were quite musical language until Alexandrian scholars murdered it! More on that in future posts on the Greek language topic.
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Re: Athens and Inaros\'s Rebellion - by hoplite14gr - 07-13-2005, 07:46 PM
Inaro\'s Rebellion - by Pacal - 07-16-2005, 10:28 PM

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