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The Hour Of Heroes
During his description of the battle of Delphi, Pausanias records that “there were seen by them ghosts of the heroes Hyperochus, Laodocus and Pyrrhus; according to some a fourth appeared, Phylacus, a local hero of Delphi” (10.23.2). This echoes the l
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Full Suit Of Lamellar Armour In Late Antique Grave
Archaeologists have recently discovered the grave of an Avar warrior containing a full suit of lamellar armour near the village of Ebes in eastern Hungary. The grave, dated to the first half of the seventh century AD, was found in November 2023. The
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The Hellenistic Armies Of The Third Century BC
The armies of the Hellenistic period were quite different from the earlier armies of the eastern Mediterranean. Initially, the various autonomous Greek cities continued to rely on hoplite phalanx militias, but the gradual dependence and, finally, the

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