Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

[Aryaman2]

What bothers me about the assertion that Alexander's army was larger than the Persian ones it fought, is that a conviction that our ancestors were inveterate exaggerators of numbers (which they may have been, although I don't personally believe it) has led you, Inaki, to ignore completely the fact that Persia was a great empire, fighting on its own territory, you let this theory blind you to the self-evident. As I have said before, if you minimise the achievements of the Greeks, you also minimise those of the Persians, who were demonstrably excellent organisers.

I am not here to minimise anything, but to ellucidate what is within logical parameters. To me, historians of the Classic World, including military historians, ignore logistics and put too much faith in unreliable sources when talking about numbers. About the Persian army being smaller is just a logical conclusion of logistics and the different nature of the armies, besides the more logical explanation for the Persian manouvers at Issus, for instance.