07-07-2010, 07:44 PM
Quote: In the OTE (Greek telecom company) museum there lots of communication types available to the ancient Greeks.
http://www.ote.gr/portal/page/portal/OT
Thank you Stefanos, this link led to an informative article on ancient communication, some interesting images also.
After considering the information contained at the aforementioned OTE museum's website, I am inclined to retract my earlier comment of "not impossible but certainly improbable", it seems the ancient Greeks had established quite a system for communication over long distances, it also makes perfect sense that the forces at Plataea and those at Delos would have had some sort of relay of information between them. Exactly how information would have been passed across the Aegean to Mykale in such a short time is possibly still open to debate (island to island, ship to ship perhaps?) but considering the many amazing inventions of these ancient ones, I am convinced this was more of a possibility than I had at first imagined.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
