The Military Annals of Greece from the Earliest Time to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War, Tom 1R. G. Badger, 1915 |
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... enemy entrenched behind fortifications and walls , which were , in some instances , more than fifty feet thick . The builders of Tiryns and Mycenae brought their civilization perhaps from Mesopotamia , perhaps from Egypt . Others ...
... enemy entrenched behind fortifications and walls , which were , in some instances , more than fifty feet thick . The builders of Tiryns and Mycenae brought their civilization perhaps from Mesopotamia , perhaps from Egypt . Others ...
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... enemies who assailed them on all sides . " As to their destiny he believes they were absorbed in Asia Minor by the Carians , Lydians and Phrygians , while in Italy they were reduced by them to the condition of serfs , and in Hellas by ...
... enemies who assailed them on all sides . " As to their destiny he believes they were absorbed in Asia Minor by the Carians , Lydians and Phrygians , while in Italy they were reduced by them to the condition of serfs , and in Hellas by ...
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... enemies . For this reason , Plutarch says , a law was passed that their campaigns with the same enemy should be as short and infrequent as possible , lest by constant observation , their adversaries might be instructed in their methods ...
... enemies . For this reason , Plutarch says , a law was passed that their campaigns with the same enemy should be as short and infrequent as possible , lest by constant observation , their adversaries might be instructed in their methods ...
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... enemy . If he was unable to con- quer , he must die , but must never quit the field . The brief maxim of the soldier was conquer or die . " Those who thus died , they believed , were glorified . In obedience to this sacred rhetra ...
... enemy . If he was unable to con- quer , he must die , but must never quit the field . The brief maxim of the soldier was conquer or die . " Those who thus died , they believed , were glorified . In obedience to this sacred rhetra ...
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... enemy . They were taught that nothing could be more honorable than war , or more sacred than victory , and that death on the field of battle meant an immediate entrance into glory . They might indeed sup with Pluto and enter Tartarus ...
... enemy . They were taught that nothing could be more honorable than war , or more sacred than victory , and that death on the field of battle meant an immediate entrance into glory . They might indeed sup with Pluto and enter Tartarus ...
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