04-22-2008, 02:03 AM
Quote:Paralus wrote:
Quote:The only debate is whether they were formed into their own enomotia – as Paullus argues – or were formed up with the homoioi in some fashion....I think a misunderstanding has arisen here......
Indeed it has and it is my error of reading. Apologies.
Quote:I also have a suspicion that it is far too easy to blame the earthquake for the decline in Homioi numbers, when the truth may well be, as in so many cases, far more complex. I also suspect the decline will have been exaggerated somewhat, but the subject of"Spartan Manpower" is perhaps better left to another thread.
The truth is indeed far more complex. As I say, two generations should have worked that through one would imagine. The fact that 1,500 ‘Lakedaemonians’ could be marched into central Greece some six or so years after this “cataclysmicâ€
Paralus|Michael Park
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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