Show 57 Kings Of Kings Ii

The speaker mentions a fascinating book by Hans Van Weiss that challenges traditional beliefs about Hoplight Warfare, indicating its complexity and the ongoing debate among historians.

Will Durant in 1930s. A great historian writing an outdated history did a wonderful job. And by the way, taking it at face value, giving you the traditional Cambysi story.

Historian George Cockwell entitled his whole book, The Greek Wars, instead of the Persian Wars, because the Persian Wars makes it sound, you know, like the Greeks are talking about it.

Historian Pierre Bryant runs down Darius' qualities a bit and then points out how much of a change, the period that he inaugurates in Persian history is.

Historians often use the book, the Iliad, the stories of Homer, as a tool to understand kind of how these weapons, you know, what kind of wounds that they inflicted and how people reacted.

It was also spread throughout the empire, in Aramaic translation on papyri, and possibly Herodotus used one of these as the basis for the story he told in his histories.

Herodotus says like 6400 persians died at marathon at about 200 greeks which shows you how one-sided ancient battle could be if those numbers are correct.

In his book on killing, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman discusses the proximity to the victim that determines how resistant people tend to be to killing.

Historian A.T. Olmsted has a chapter. I love the title. It's Problems on the Greek frontier.

Risa Sargami in his book Discovering Cyrus says we shouldn't be so quick to throw out the official story.

Purvis translation of Herodotus says, quote. From Thassos, the fleet crossed over and sailed close to the shore of the mainland...

They might have had to rely on, you know, witness testimony back in the day of Will Durant in 1935.

The term 'king of kings' is used in the context of the Persian Empire's ability to call upon a diverse range of troops, showcasing its vastness.

the magus you know the false bardia galmatah

Tom Holland, the historian, pointed it out in his book Persian Fire, but there may be a connection to the fact that this is a really sort of hard to believe story.