🇬🇷 3,200 Years of Greek Warfare — From the Trojan War to NATO 🇬🇷

Watch 3,200 years of Greek military history unfold in one seamless continuous shot. A single soldier runs through every era, the uniform and world transforming behind him as he runs.

In this episode:

Mycenaean Warrior - Trojan War (c. 1250 BCE) - Dendra bronze panoply, boar's tusk helmet, tower shield, bronze spear
Dorian / Dark Age Warrior - First Messenian War (c. 740-720 BCE) - bell cuirass, early bronze helmet, round shield, spear and iron sword
Athenian Hoplite - Marathon (490 BCE) - Corinthian helmet, aspis shield, dory spear, citizen panoply
Spartan Hoplite - Thermopylae (480 BCE) - Corinthian helmet, red cloak, aspis, spear
Athenian Marine - Salamis (480 BCE) - naval battle kit, bronze helmet, shield, spear
Spartan Hoplite - Plataea (479 BCE) - classical hoplite panoply, scarlet cloak, spear and shield
Athenian Hoplite - Eurymedon (466 BCE) - bronze helmet, aspis, spear, imperial Athenian field kit
Athenian Hoplite - Syracuse (413 BCE) - worn campaign panoply, shield, spear, Sicilian expedition dust
Spartan Hoplite - Nemea (394 BCE) - late classical hoplite armor, shield, spear
Theban Sacred Band - Chaeronea (338 BCE) - Boeotian helmet, hoplite shield, spear, elite Theban panoply
Macedonian Companion Cavalry - Granicus (334 BCE) - Boeotian cavalry helmet, cuirass, xyston lance
Macedonian Phalangite - Issus (333 BCE) - sarissa pike, small shield, helmet, linothorax
Macedonian Phalangite - Hydaspes (326 BCE) - sarissa, phalanx shield, Hellenic campaign armor in India
Successor Phalangite - Ipsus (301 BCE) - Hellenistic pike infantry, helmet, shield, Successor kingdoms kit
Macedonian Phalangite - Pydna (168 BCE) - late phalanx armor, sarissa, shield
Achaean League Hoplite - Corinth (146 BCE) - Hellenistic helmet, shield, spear, last free Greek league army
Byzantine Thematic Soldier - Siege of Constantinople (717-718) - lamellar armor, spangenhelm, round shield, spear
Byzantine Skoutatos - Kleidion (1014) - skouton shield, helmet, spear, middle Byzantine infantry kit
Byzantine Kataphraktos - Manzikert (1071) - lamellar cavalry armor, conical
helmet, kontos lance, bow
Palaiologan Soldier - Reconquest of Constantinople (1261) - mail and lamellar, shield, spear, late Byzantine restoration era
Byzantine Defender - Fall of Constantinople (1453) - mail-and-plate defense kit, shield, spear
Greek Revolutionary - Dervenakia (1822) - foustanella, waistcoat, long gun, pistols, yataghan
Greek Line Infantry - Domokos (1897) - dark tunic, kepi, leather equipment, Gras rifle
Evzone - Bizani (1913) - foustanella, fez, tsarouchia, Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle
Greek Infantryman - Sakarya / Asia Minor (1921) - khaki service dress, Adrian helmet, rifle, campaign kit
Evzone - Pindus (1940) - winter foustanella, wool layers, tsarouchia, rifle in the snow
Cretan Resistance Fighter - Crete (1941) - civilian wool dress, bandolier, captured rifle, mountain resistance
ELDYK Soldier - Cyprus (1974) - olive drab battle dress, steel helmet, battle rifle, frontline kit
Modern Hellenic Army - Present - lizard camouflage, body armor, helmet, modern NATO combat kit

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