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    Article on Greek Archery

    Since the use of archers in Odyssey seems to favor the Athenians, I did a little research during my "planning" period. The article is below. It was some interesting reading.

    https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/v...classicsfacpub
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    Originally Posted by nanook62 Go to original post
    Since the use of archers in Odyssey seems to favor the Athenians,(...)
    Thank you for sharing nanook62!
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    Despite the ancient Greek equivalent of an Agincourt, the Greek military mind fi rmly retained the heavy infantry, rather than the archers, as the main force. Recognized uses of the archer in Greek warfare were to fend off heights of city walls, to perform commando raids, and to provide covering fi re for commando-style operations. Th is essay, written after a fresh reading of the principle Greek historians, puts together all passages where one can see the ancient Greek archer at work and in his military setting. When Pericles proclaims the catalog of Athenian forces at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431–404), the array looked like this:
    15,000 fi rst-line hoplites
    1,600 reserve hoplites
    1,600 cavalry (including mounted archers)
    1,200 archers
    300 warships


    Archers comprised, then, roughly 10 percent of an ancient Greek city’s military force. We want to ask, of course, what they did with these archers. Th is in turn requires seeing the system of Greek land warfare.
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    Really good article. I don't think many people can write such articles. Lately, I have been interested in writing and often communicate with the authors of the site, who write examples of medicine essays. I wonder what subtleties people who write articles about weapons, medicine, or education use, how they make their article so lively, and I want to read it again and again. The article is good and noteworthy.
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