Teaser: Changing Warfare and the Hoplite (Patreon)
04/03/22 • 7 min
This is a teaser of the bonus episode, Changing Warfare and the Hoplite found over on Patreon.
How wars were fought on the Greek mainland would go through a period of change and evolution, much like many other areas of culture. This would see the heavily armoured aristocratic warriors of the Bronze Age, riding their chariots into battle fade from history. As the Bronze Age moved into the dark ages and then into the Archaic period, how the Greeks fought would change dramatically, with these changes appearing to be tied with the political and social structures of the societies.
We would end up seeing a new type of fighter emerge, that of the Hoplite, who unlike the warriors of the Bronze Age, was a solider part of a formation much larger and important than the individual. In this episode we will look at this change in warfare along with the emergence of the Hoplite and attempt to understand why and how they came about.
If you would like to hear more and support the series click on the Patreon link at the bottom of the page or you can head to my website to discover other ways to support the series, Here
New bonus episodes and series updates come out in the first week of every month,
This is a teaser of the bonus episode, Changing Warfare and the Hoplite found over on Patreon.
How wars were fought on the Greek mainland would go through a period of change and evolution, much like many other areas of culture. This would see the heavily armoured aristocratic warriors of the Bronze Age, riding their chariots into battle fade from history. As the Bronze Age moved into the dark ages and then into the Archaic period, how the Greeks fought would change dramatically, with these changes appearing to be tied with the political and social structures of the societies.
We would end up seeing a new type of fighter emerge, that of the Hoplite, who unlike the warriors of the Bronze Age, was a solider part of a formation much larger and important than the individual. In this episode we will look at this change in warfare along with the emergence of the Hoplite and attempt to understand why and how they came about.
If you would like to hear more and support the series click on the Patreon link at the bottom of the page or you can head to my website to discover other ways to support the series, Here
New bonus episodes and series updates come out in the first week of every month,
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49: Miletos with Prof. Vanessa Gorman
The Greek city of Miletos in western Anatolia would be described by Herodotus as being the ornament of Ionia. This referring to the affluence of the city during the Archaic period and its position amongst the many other Greek cities in Ionia. In this episode I am joined by Prof. Vanessa Gorman who takes us through the history of this wealthy and influential city. We begin by covering the earliest periods of history around the site of Miletus, which leads us into the Bronze Age and the various connections the city had. We then look at the period of the Bronze Age collapse in the region and the period afterward that would see the arrival of the Greeks from mainland Greece. We then look at a city that would become one of the most affluent within the Greek world during the Archaic period. Before we then turn to the decline of Miletus on the backdrop of the subjugation to the Lydian and then the Persian Empire. We then finish off with a bit of an overview of the city after the Greek and Persian Wars before then ending with a look at an open-source language course developed by Prof. Gorman.
Prof. Vanessa Gorman received her PhD in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 1993. Since then, she has held various position as associate professor and associate dean, where in 2015 she became Professor of the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a position she currently still holds. In 2021 she also took on a position in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Prof. Gorman’s areas of expertise lay within the areas of Greek History and Historiography; Greek Language Pedagogy; Philology and Dependency Syntax and Digital Humanities. While she also focuses on Republican and Augustan Roman History and Roman Historiography.
For Prof. Gorman, language was a huge part of her journey into understanding the ancient world to where she would become proficient in reading Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Italian and French. Her realisation of the importance of language also saw Prof. Gorman create an open-source course available to all called Reading Ancient Greek in the Digital Age.
Links to Prof. Gorman’s work:
Greek Lanuage Site:
https://vgorman1.github.io/Greek-Language-Class/
Digital Publications:
Greek Dependency Treebanks:
https://github.com/vgorman1/Greek-Dependency-Trees
https://perseids-publications.github.io/gorman-trees/
Books:
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50: Introducing Thucydides with Prof. James Romm
I find it very fitting that with this 50th episode we are now transitioning into a new phase of Greek history. A point that is often officially seen where the Archaic Age ends and the Classical Age starts, its also where we say goodbye to Herodotus as our main foundational source and welcome in Thucydides. While it is also a major transitional event in the Greek world coming away from the Persian invasions, with all of the political and diplomatic developments that would occur leading to conflict from within the Greek world. Though, before picking back up the narrative, I wanted to provide an introduction to this period we will be spending quite some time with. To do this I have invited Prof. James Romm on the show to help give us an introduction to Thucydides and the subject of his history, the Peloponnesian War. I had decided to reach out to Prof. Romm as I had recently come across a book he was involved in titled “The Greek Histories” with came out this year. This work is focused on providing an introduction to a number of Ancient Greek writers, of who Thucydides was one. So, I felt this was perfect timing given where we were currently in the series.
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. He specializes in ancient Greek and Roman culture and civilization. His reviews and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, the Daily Beast, and other venues. He has held the Guggenheim Fellowship (1999-2000), the Birkelund Fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library (2010-11), and a Biography Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center of the City University of New York (2014-15). Prof. Romm is also the author and editor of a number of books including but not limited to, The Sacred Band, Ghost on the Throne, The Greek Histories, the how to, an ancient guide series of books and the landmark Arrian, the Campaigns of Alexander the Great.
James Romm's Links:
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James Romm's Books:
How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
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