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  Hoplites

  Hoplites ab 41.99 € als pdf eBook: The Classical Greek Battle Experience. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Hoplites

  Hoplites ab 41.99 € als epub eBook: The Classical Greek Battle Experience. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Hoplites: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Greek Soldiers Who Revolutionized Infantry Warfare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  Although the armies of the ancient Greek, or "Hellenic", city-states (poleis, singular polis) included both cavalry (hippeis) and light infantry (psiloi, peltastes, gymnetes), their mainstay was undoubtedly the heavy infantry known today as hoplites. Armed to the teeth with their distinctive round shield (aspis or hoplon), high-crested helmet (corys) and long spear (dory), the hoplites were some of the most efficient soldiers of their time. They fought in the tight phalanx formation, and beyond the confines of their small poleis, Greek hoplites were also prized as mercenaries throughout the ancient world. Most historians believe that the hoplite became the dominant infantry soldier in nearly all the Greek city-states around the eighth century BCE. Hoplites were responsible for acquiring their own equipment, so not every hoplite might have been equally armed, but considering the style of warfare, they needed as much uniformity as possible. Like most infantry outside of Greece, the hoplites also carried spears, but while the Persian weapons were short and light for example, the Greek spears were thick shafts anywhere between seven and nine feet long. These spears were topped by a nine-inch spearhead, with a "lizard-sticker" buttspike at the bottom which could be used as a secondary spearhead if the main weapon was snapped off, or to plant the spear upright when at rest. Each hoplite also carried a shortsword, designed specifically for thrusting in the close confines of a melee (the Spartan weapon, the xiphos, was so short as to be virtually a dagger, its blade barely over a foot long). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091848/bk_acx0_091848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vorstellung der Wettkämpfe Diaulos (Doppellauf) Hoplites (Waffenlauf) und des Pentathlon (5-Kampf)

  Vorstellung der Wettkämpfe Diaulos (Doppellauf) Hoplites (Waffenlauf) und des Pentathlon (5-Kampf) ab 2.99 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,

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  Greco-Roman Warfare: The History and Legacy of the Phalanx and Legion Formations That Revolutionized the Ancient World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min

  Although the armies of the ancient Greek, or “Hellenic”, city-states (poleis, singular polis) included both cavalry (hippeis) and light infantry (psiloi, peltastes, gymnetes), their mainstay was undoubtedly the heavy infantry known today as hoplites. Armed to the teeth with their distinctive round shield (aspis or hoplon), high-crested helmet (corys) and long spear (dory), the hoplites were some of the most efficient soldiers of their time.Most historians believe that the hoplite became the dominant infantry soldier in nearly all the Greek city-states around the 8th century BCE. Like most infantry outside of Greece, the hoplites also carried spears, but while the Persian weapons were short and light for example, the Greek spears were thick shafts anywhere between seven and nine feet long. These spears were topped by a nine-inch spearhead, with a “lizard-sticker” buttspike at the bottom which could be used as a secondary spearhead if the main weapon was snapped off, or to plant the spear upright when at rest. Each hoplite also carried a shortsword, designed for thrusting in the close confines of a melee.For the Greeks, a hoplite was only as strong as the hoplite next to him; without hoplites on the sides, both flanks were exposed, and heavy infantry units are not mobile. Thus, they implemented the phalanx formation, one of history’s most important military innovations. The phalanx was a line of infantry as wide across as the battlefield dictated, anything from five to 30 men deep, with each rank of men officered by a veteran. The formation also included an additional, expert file-closer at the back of each file, to keep the formation cohesive.It was only with the advent of the more mobile Roman legion, and the defeat of phalanxes in battles like Cynoscephalae (197 BCE), that the hoplite phalanx was finally outclassed, although not without a long fight: the last of Alexander’s successor kingdoms, Ptolemaic Egypt, only fell in 31 BCE.Wh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106933/bk_acx0_106933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Greek Warriors

  Greek Warriors ab 14.99 € als epub eBook: Hoplites and Heroes. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,

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  Hoplite: Alien War Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min

  A warlike alien race. A stranded platoon. One man's fight to save his brothers - and humanity itself - from total annihilation. Rade Galaal and his elite team are dispatched to the farthest reaches of known space to investigate the disappearance of a classified new supercarrier. Equipped with Hoplites, powerful battle suits laden with enough firepower to raze a small city, Rade and his team explore the barren world where the starship issued its final transmission. But shortly after they land, things start to go very wrong. Cut off from the fleet, stranded on an unforgiving planet, and surrounded by hostiles, Rade and his men find themselves fighting for their very lives against a seemingly unstoppable foe. Even the awesome firepower of the Hoplites might not be enough. Can Rade overcome his demons in time to save the platoon, or will his team become the first casualty of the coming alien war? Book one of a military science fiction trilogy, Hoplite ends in a cliffhanger. Book two, Zeus, is available now. For fans of Starship Troopers, Armor, and Old Man's War. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price, Alexandra Palting. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167030/bk_acx0_167030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Priestess and the Slave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min

  A tale of honor and dishonor, of love, pain, madness, and endurance, told with painstaking historical and archaeological accuracy. Set in classical Greece in the fifth century BC, The Priestess and the Slave conveys the extraordinary history of the time through the eyes of two narrators - a Delphic Pythia deeply embroiled in the political turmoil earlier in the century, and a young slavewoman, some decades later, living through the terrible plague in Athens and the seemingly endless war against the invincible hoplites of Sparta. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019122/bk_acx0_019122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pooper Probed by Poseidon: The Janus Key Chronicles, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min, (USK 18)

  Trapped in a sexually savage world.... Dirk Gudgeon woke up to find his twin sister, his companion through his dimensional travels, missing! Determined to find her in a hostile environment, Dirk must use his sexual wile to free himself from lusty hoplites, find the Key of Janus, and somehow escape from a god's monstrous, vile intentions! This pulp erotica is meant for a mature audience and contains MMM, FMF, M/M, oral, anal, godly ravishing, and is 11,000+ words! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audrey Lusk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085173/bk_acx0_085173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire (eBook, PDF)

  The armies of Cyrus, Xerxes and Darius III are usually understood through the lens of classical literature and stereotypes about the orient. Sean Manning proposes a new understanding based on all kinds of evidence and the study of the ancient Near East. He examines the last century and a half of research in its historical and ideological context. Three core chapters treat Akkadian tablets, Aramaic documents, royal inscriptions, and artifacts as sources in their own right, not compliments to Herodotus. The different perspectives of Iranian philologists, Mesopotamian archaeologists and historians of ancient Greece are considered and addressed. A series of case studies show that the Greek and Latin texts can be read in unfamiliar ways which can survive stronger criticism than traditional interpretations. The king's troops were not literary foils to show the virtues of Greek hoplites or Scythian horsemen, they were agents of an early world empire which drew on long traditions and the latest innovations to gather money, soldiers, and workers and deploy them at the will of the king. Sean Manning has studied Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary and Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck where he received his PhD in 2018. His research focuses on the Achaemenid empire, the place and practicalities of armed force in the premodern world, and using texts to understand material culture.

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