Daily Life in a Greek Hoplite Camp | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:01:57 The Hoplite
00:10:03 Shape of Military Life
00:16:46 Feeding the Army
00:24:24 The Gods in Camp
00:30:58 Support Economy
00:37:10 The Phalanx
00:43:17 After Battle
00:48:09 The Weight of War
00:54:21 Thoughts

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Sources and Further Reading

Xenophon (c. 370 BCE). Anabasis.
Thucydides (c. 400 BCE). History of the Peloponnesian War.
Herodotus (c. 440 BCE). The Histories.
Tyrtaeus (c. 640 BCE). Elegies and Martial Poems. (Fragments.)
Aristophanes (424–421 BCE). Acharnians; Peace.
Plutarch (c. 100 CE). Lives: Themistocles, Pelopidas, Lycurgus.
Hanson, Victor Davis. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (1989).
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994).
Krentz, Peter. The Battle of Marathon (2010).
Anderson, J.K. Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon (1970).

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ASMR Historian examines the daily routines and logistical realities of ancient Greek soldiers outside of combat. This exploration details how these