Is this the first use of the soft center tactic? Hannibal later used it at Cannae, against a numerically superior Roman force. I wonder if Miltiades invented it.
@leybron hehe ah yes the mg42 look they still used cavalry in world war 2 but heres my strategy left to right:tanks,cavalry,infantry thus allowing the 42 to get infantry wen the infantry get close walla cavalry go up front and bust some heads
Poland in 1939 knew that tanks are the future but had no money to build tank forces.1 horse costed 500 PLZ and didnt need hi-tech resupply (fuel,spare parts etc.)-1 truck (not even tank!!) costed 3000 PLZ and needed hi-tech resupply.Poland was poor and cavalry was only one mobile formation .Polish cavalry was always used as mounted infantry but had very few AT guns.In Battle of Mokra polish cavalry brigade (24 AT guns) hold whole day against 1st Panzer Division (308 tanks) supported by Stukas
also,miltiades sent fidipides to inform athens of their victory in fear that they would surrender if they saw the persian fleet coming to athens because they would think that their army was beaten.after fidipides informed them of their victory,all the atheneans,women,childern and elders,wore hoplite armors and stood upon the citys walls.when datis saw them,he thought that there were still guards at the city and got confused.that was enough to delay him,until the greek army arrived.
thats not exactly the way things went on.first of all most historians agree that dates sailed for athens after the athenians beat the persians.the athenians captured some of the ships trying to sail and put them on fire.in fact we have te story of cynaigyros an athenian soldier who ws trying to pull a ship to the shore but one of the crew saw him and cut his right arm.he kept pulling it with his left hand,but he cut that too and then he grabbed the ship with his teeth untl his head was cut too.
I watch all these documentaries and I just wonder. The Spartans? Greatest warriors of all time perhaps? Either way, can anyone answer this question? What happened to them? Like if they were so great where are they now? (never seen or read anything about the end of spartans I'm just curious)
@TheDiego1255 they were worn down during a 25 year long war with athens after that they had close to no hoplites left and were easily conquered by other greek tribes
These are warriors of ATHENS. Spartans were too busy getting smashed due to festivities. I thnk the EPHORs did that to them? (according to usa media of 300)
Phalanx owns the crap out of those clumsy eastern infantry, but I would've gone back to Athens and await the bastards in proper ranks to poke them with the spears as they would be running toward the phalanx. no need to exhaust then :)
@desertfox1792: The modern marathon distance comes from the fact that Edward VII was sick during the 1908 Olympic games. In order that he might be able to see it, the starting line for the marathon was moved to Windsor Castle.
You can not compare the Persian army in 480 to the one in 331BC. By 331 it was a dwindling empire. Alexander was the attacker and had already held Syria and the Near East. He also had the Corinthian League behind him. The Greeks were far more advanced than the Persians by 331. I think you're being a small bit ignorant of the Persians in 480. Fair enough a lot of their numbers didn't seem to be as skilled in combat as the Greek hoplites but they did have the elite scale-armoured 'Immortals'.
Nonsensical, semi-fictitious and one-sided documentary. Even Herdotus wasn't as biased and thats saying a lot. The absence to cite Thucydides or Aeschylus shows how lazy a job the History Channel did. Very poor. This is not history.
for sure history is mainly written from the winner's side. but the main point is that Persian invasion in Greek peninsula failed although the Persian army was much bigger
@dimstiv this is a documentary on the battle of Marathon. There is no one main-point. Everybody knows that the Persians had the advantage in numbers but the Persians needed open ground to use that advantage. Marathon wasn't an open ground battlefield. In fact not one battle in the Persian wars took place on open ground.
@boru1982 1 and only battle against greek army was held in open ground, the one in Gaugamela (331 bc Alexander's campaign) but Persian army again lost. and it is not only the ground. there is also the factor of quality. most Persians were carrying just a wooden shield. Greek hoplites were heavily armoured and had better teamwork.
@yefi2 YES! Damn it! My name is Miltiadis (yes, I have this great honour) and in american english it sounds like shit. In current greek it sounds completely different, but nobody knows how it actually used to sound like back in 490BC.
@luckyprince164 The Macedonian's submitted to Persia in the second invasion, during the classical age macedon was pretty backwards and useless, only when Alexander the Great's father Philip come along did the Macedonian's become a force to be reckoned with.
Man, it's October in Malta and it's still very hot(20-30 degrees Celsius). In September, temperatures in places like Southern Greece, Sicily, Crete, Malta etc are still extremely hot compared to colder European climates.
@BlackPanteraSociety ok i just read about general weather in the region when i posted the comment, might be hot at specific areas. lol i am not the one to question not been there.
its strabge for now but back then, the celebration of sacred days was really holy. the spartans were veru strict when came to tradition. sparta was the city of tradition. well...athens too actually, before they became a naval power:) and the spartans maybe wanted something more...its big conversation
@143259 Omg no they wernt Yes The 300 Spartans played there part but they didnt fight the whole battle there was 7000Other Greeks there and it wasnt just 300 spartans at the last stand while Athens was fleeing to salamis. 700Thebes also stayed and fought to the death respect them aswell not just the 300 bloody spartans
@DJBuckCallYo why so surprised? once the greeks reached the persian line, they were unopposed to the light desert infantry. Miltiades thinned his center so that the Persians would run through the hole in the middle, and be incircled. the only damage the Persians could have done was archer kills.
@skittlesareyum48 I agree with you. History Channel war a truely history channel, now he has programs like Ice Truckers that have nothing to do with history.
gyrofoam1 is right, I think. If one of these ancient men were to go head-to-head in any physical challenge with a 21st century man, the 21st century men would have his ass handed to him over and over again.
I also think that the fear death to the ancient man would not stop him as much as it would make a modern man wet himself. Even if modern man managed to stab the ancient man clean thru, the ancient man would still fight on and kill the modern man first.
Just for the record, the runner sent to Athens to report the victory did not drop dead after giving his report. There is not a single mention of that happening in any of the histories. Herodotus nor Euripides mentioned it and they are the only two credible historians on the battle. But further, it was not even mentioned by less credible historians. It's just an urban legend that makes a more dramatic story.
@27POP27 That's because you don't live in 490bc - you will Never know how people lived at that time. Believe it or not - they didn't even have playstation either. History is too mindboggling for most people, who are born into the society we live in now, to comprehend - that is why it is a Threat.....people see things like e.g. the Pyramids, or Stonehenge and say "There's no way 'people' could've done that, they must've had help from Aliens".
@Tyrfingr 1 mile in an hour is 1.6km's in 60 minutes.Mate i could run that in 3-5 minutes.Im in the NZ army and we have to run 12km(7.4 miles) in 45 minutes.If you have to run 1 mile in an hour your Sgt must be super obiese(No offence)
@WRH90059 Sorry i'm way too used to our metric measurements. 1 Mile = 10km for us, naturally in combat gear, weapons and the whole shebang. Any longer than that i think would have killed someone, those MAG58's as you know don't weigh 2 grams. Obviously it was a failure if the whole group didn't make it regardless if you were spearheading the bunch. As the Captain said to the guys who broke from the group to win "In wartime we're not interested in moving one individual to a specific point"
@Tyrfingr Oh right i forgot the US uses a completely different metric system to us.For most militaries its full equipment,fully loaded weapons too.Get you ready for what could be a withdrawl under fire.Got to be fit.
Indeed,a nice quote mate.Its about caomradeship and not to leave gaps between the unit(if you were in a combat situation)
@WRH90059 Im from Sweden ;) we are using the Metric system up here. And you English speaking lot are using two others i believe, US customary and the Imperial. I tell ya, it has driven me bonkers more than once everytime i have had to convert to and from.
Actually, the runner from the battle field when he entered Athens went straight to the Agora (i.e. market place) and said "νενικήκαμεν" (nenikikamen) which translates exactly to "we have won".
Then he died from exhaustion. Legend has it that the runner was Fidipidis but this could not be true. Fidipidis was the runner/messenger sent to ask help from the Spartans. The name of this (actually first marathon runner) Athenian is still unknown.
Greeks,Thebians and Spartans saved the rest of Europe from bullshit middle-eastern culture. If it wasnt for them Europe would be Islamic today :). One day well have to repeat what Spartans did, and kick bullshit Islam out of Europe. No, im not trolling, im just telling my honest opinion.
@Legolasas26 no, if Persia had conquered all of Europe we would all be zoroastrians.
and during the Middle Ages, the Muslims were WAY more advanced than the Christians, they were the ultimate of science, mathematics, astronomy and weaponry, so without Islam we wouldn't be what we are.
But anyway all religions are useless today, we should kick out ALL of the religions, including christianity.
@Legolasas26 also, the Spartans didn't do anything very useful against Persia. They didn't hold them off against Xerxes at Thermopylea, Athens was still burned. Then when Alexander started conquering Persia they refused to participate, it was all the Corinthian Leage and Macedon.
now please go read some history and stop using 300 and bullshit average american culture as your sources and come back when you got puberty hair.
@AlexOfMacedonAOMH Damn arent you smart, historic knowledge and pubic hair have a lot in common idiot. And what makes you think i used the 300 movie as a source of information about thermopylae?
Last time i checked there were no Thebians in the movie and barely any Greeks.
And really, stop wasting my time with youre never ending comment fights on youtube, cause im not into that geek bullshit.
no you're just into the posting a lot of ignorant bullshit and as soon as somebody proves you wrong you come up with some lame excuse as why you can't even admit you were made to look like some cretin clown.
You also need to realize that the 60 seconds a minute and 60 minutes an hour, and 2 times 12 hours is based on the old Sumerian way of using 60 as the main number. The arabs founded modern surgery and they knew about the importance of sterility long before Europeans knew it
First of all there were no muslims back then. In fact there wasn't for another 1000 years. Also you should know that human civilization started in the middle east, or where you asleep in history class when they talked about the ancient sumerians, assyrians and babylonians. They lived in Mesopotamia, which is where today's Iraq is in.
The Spartans didn't kick muslims out of Europe you first class idiot. There were no muslims and neither did the Spartans did most of the fighting
As a matter of fact those "bullshit middle easterners" preserved a lot of the knowledge of the ancient world and took great care of ancient books and scrolls. Unlike the crusaders that sacked Constantinople on their way to the holy land and destroyed thousands of irreplacable works of art and knowledge from the ancient world.
Speaking of muslims. Your idol Hitler even had muslim SS divisions. The bosnian muslim SS Handschar and the albanian SS Skenderbeg. Your opinion is stupid.
On the point of archers and Spartans, yes they thought archers were a woman's weapon, but only for true Spartans. The auxiliary non-spartan born units that helped Spartans used throwing weapons, bows, slings etc.
if daidis had sailed around back to marathon, his army may have been able to land before the spartans got there, and if not they would have been able to face a smaller force
@spinynorman230 The Persians seemed to never fare well against the noble Greek City States. Thermopylae, Plataea, Salamis, and let us not forget Alexander's campaign against the Achaemenid empire.
well, what can you say, upgraded Armoured Hoplites from the Greek city-states faction obliterate light and crappy Desert Infantry. (although the Carthaginian Sacred Band are the best hoplites in the game...)
Its a shame that the Plataeans don't get a mention at all. They're little city state provided every man they could (about 1,000 hoplites according to Plutarch) as they're polis was allied to the Athenians, and they fought on the left flank, were given equal burial rights with the Athenians and shared in the religious rites dedicated to the Athenian patron gods after the battle.
It's funny how no one discuss why the persian's attention was drawn to Athens in the first place. The Ionian cities, which had been part of the Persian Empire since 545BC, revolted with the help of Athens, against Persia and marched against the regional capitol of Sardis, burning it down. After the persians put down the rebellion, they decided to set an example of Athens for helping to sow discord in the empire. It should be noted that Ionia had considerable autonomy under the persians; ...
It's funny how it is never mentioned why the persian's attentions were even drawn towards Athens in the first place. The Ionian greeks, who had been part of the Persian Empire since 545BC, revolted with the aid of Athens, and burned down the regional capitol of Sardis. It should be known that Ionia had considerable autonomy under the persians; that the reason for the revolt was because the Tyrant of the Ionian city Miletus made a gamble for power, failed, and sought to redirect the ...
hippias was not a king he was a tyrant
ajmc1992 1 week ago
the runner ran 26.2 miles and yelled nike nike nike which means victory in greece. this is why a marathon is 26.2 miles.
Rockfan977 1 week ago
If you have the will to fight for whats right,nothing can stop you!
crypter27 1 week ago
why did they sent him running? they would have send him with a horse
andresraya 2 weeks ago
@andresraya Greeks
trumsu915 1 week ago
Is this the first use of the soft center tactic? Hannibal later used it at Cannae, against a numerically superior Roman force. I wonder if Miltiades invented it.
Terncote 3 weeks ago
man i wish they still had cavalry in battle i mean they can be better than tanks if u know how to use a horse!!!!!!!!!!!!
hores=
faster
easier to handle
can have good armour on so someone can be on a horse and jump on a tank go in and stab or watever
jahn119ify 3 weeks ago
@jahn119ify they'd be easy target for infantry..
leybron 3 weeks ago
@leybron nah not if they had heavy armor
jahn119ify 3 weeks ago
@jahn119ify tell that to the mg42..
leybron 3 weeks ago
@leybron hehe ah yes the mg42 look they still used cavalry in world war 2 but heres my strategy left to right:tanks,cavalry,infantry thus allowing the 42 to get infantry wen the infantry get close walla cavalry go up front and bust some heads
jahn119ify 3 weeks ago
@jahn119ify The Polish thought that cavalry was better than tanks too, back in 1939.
vkon15 3 weeks ago
Poland in 1939 knew that tanks are the future but had no money to build tank forces.1 horse costed 500 PLZ and didnt need hi-tech resupply (fuel,spare parts etc.)-1 truck (not even tank!!) costed 3000 PLZ and needed hi-tech resupply.Poland was poor and cavalry was only one mobile formation .Polish cavalry was always used as mounted infantry but had very few AT guns.In Battle of Mokra polish cavalry brigade (24 AT guns) hold whole day against 1st Panzer Division (308 tanks) supported by Stukas
garden2010city 2 weeks ago
datis,seeing the army marchig at the shore turned his ships and left for persia.
spyrosw9 4 weeks ago
also,miltiades sent fidipides to inform athens of their victory in fear that they would surrender if they saw the persian fleet coming to athens because they would think that their army was beaten.after fidipides informed them of their victory,all the atheneans,women,childern and elders,wore hoplite armors and stood upon the citys walls.when datis saw them,he thought that there were still guards at the city and got confused.that was enough to delay him,until the greek army arrived.
spyrosw9 4 weeks ago
thats not exactly the way things went on.first of all most historians agree that dates sailed for athens after the athenians beat the persians.the athenians captured some of the ships trying to sail and put them on fire.in fact we have te story of cynaigyros an athenian soldier who ws trying to pull a ship to the shore but one of the crew saw him and cut his right arm.he kept pulling it with his left hand,but he cut that too and then he grabbed the ship with his teeth untl his head was cut too.
spyrosw9 4 weeks ago
I watch all these documentaries and I just wonder. The Spartans? Greatest warriors of all time perhaps? Either way, can anyone answer this question? What happened to them? Like if they were so great where are they now? (never seen or read anything about the end of spartans I'm just curious)
TheDiego1255 1 month ago
@TheDiego1255 They had very good soldiers, but they were outnumbered by the other greek states and beaten by them
MegaTranquilla 1 month ago
@TheDiego1255 they were worn down during a 25 year long war with athens after that they had close to no hoplites left and were easily conquered by other greek tribes
Skruf138 1 month ago
Thanks for uploading!!
AshTheMohican 1 month ago
I hope CA makes a new Rome Total War 2 game.
These are warriors of ATHENS. Spartans were too busy getting smashed due to festivities. I thnk the EPHORs did that to them? (according to usa media of 300)
DarkPrinceNH5570 1 month ago
Phalanx owns the crap out of those clumsy eastern infantry, but I would've gone back to Athens and await the bastards in proper ranks to poke them with the spears as they would be running toward the phalanx. no need to exhaust then :)
BibsXIIII 1 month ago
0:25.. Y U NO ACTIVATE PHALANX MODE?!
MrNoobHere 1 month ago 2
6:25 if its hot enough that someone needs to wear a hat I can't imagine wearing full armour.
x2Ice2x 1 month ago
SPARTANS!! AAATT-- wait a sec, did we miss something?
SuperJoebob12 2 months ago 9
HOPLITES!!! AAATAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKK!!!
SuperJoebob12 2 months ago
Dude, greek soldiers were extremely in some excelent shape to do all that. xD
AndarilhoMarco 3 months ago
lol eastern infantry vs armoured hoplites
TalonMercenary 3 months ago
Something thats really cool is how the Greeks fought together despite their differences and dislike for one another; pretty epic.
reqiuemforadream 4 months ago
Isnt it 26 miles to Athens? Hence the 26 mile marathon run? lol
desertfox1792 4 months ago
@desertfox1792: The modern marathon distance comes from the fact that Edward VII was sick during the 1908 Olympic games. In order that he might be able to see it, the starting line for the marathon was moved to Windsor Castle.
chakatfirepaw 3 months ago 3
Yeah, this isn't very accurate, but whatevs.
eXcommunicate1979 4 months ago
After watching these vids I am going to play R:TW again.
GrovyleXShinyCelebi 4 months ago 51
@GrovyleXShinyCelebi
already downloading....:D
misasiasi 2 months ago
@GrovyleXShinyCelebi ditto
AlexaSylvia 2 months ago
@GrovyleXShinyCelebi the thing is that why dont the hoplites in rome total war have short spears like the hoplites in the video?
hipie63 6 days ago
@hipie63 It was a modified version of Rome total war built specifically for the series. An example are those ships.
TonPappa 2 days ago
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@GrovyleXShinyCelebi but why dont the hoplites in rome total war have the short spears like the hoplites in the video do?
hipie63 6 days ago
@GrovyleXShinyCelebi i still do. never stopped
SmokeytheBear66 6 days ago
I just ran a half marathon and thought of Phidipedes. Plan to run a full one soon for my Boy!
gzuss090909 4 months ago
this was an awesome episode. thanks for uploading
imfromtambunan 4 months ago
Not the last and only defeat for the Persians. Therefore I fully understand why Teheran need nuclear weapons ;)
pedowife4kids 5 months ago
THIS IS SPAR... Oh shit there dead!!!
Moneydewb 5 months ago 3
this video is inaccurate. the battle did not happed this way. i am a greek and i know.
socratesnios 6 months ago
Apparently Phidippedes is still running
clandestine266 6 months ago
"Spartans are you READY!"
"YEAHHH"
"Charge!!... oh their dead?..."
WoWHaZ51 6 months ago
lol at 7:03
Rockshadow666 7 months ago
Can some one tell me what mod did they used
kobac005 7 months ago
You can not compare the Persian army in 480 to the one in 331BC. By 331 it was a dwindling empire. Alexander was the attacker and had already held Syria and the Near East. He also had the Corinthian League behind him. The Greeks were far more advanced than the Persians by 331. I think you're being a small bit ignorant of the Persians in 480. Fair enough a lot of their numbers didn't seem to be as skilled in combat as the Greek hoplites but they did have the elite scale-armoured 'Immortals'.
boru1982 8 months ago
So, democracy was first created in Athens....
smallfire66 8 months ago
@smallfire66 only by accident and because the politicians thought it would be self-beneficial.
boru1982 8 months ago
This is Sparta!!!.. where is everyone?
ccaptorchen 9 months ago
Nonsensical, semi-fictitious and one-sided documentary. Even Herdotus wasn't as biased and thats saying a lot. The absence to cite Thucydides or Aeschylus shows how lazy a job the History Channel did. Very poor. This is not history.
boru1982 9 months ago
@boru1982
for sure history is mainly written from the winner's side. but the main point is that Persian invasion in Greek peninsula failed although the Persian army was much bigger
dimstiv 8 months ago
@dimstiv this is a documentary on the battle of Marathon. There is no one main-point. Everybody knows that the Persians had the advantage in numbers but the Persians needed open ground to use that advantage. Marathon wasn't an open ground battlefield. In fact not one battle in the Persian wars took place on open ground.
boru1982 8 months ago
@boru1982 1 and only battle against greek army was held in open ground, the one in Gaugamela (331 bc Alexander's campaign) but Persian army again lost. and it is not only the ground. there is also the factor of quality. most Persians were carrying just a wooden shield. Greek hoplites were heavily armoured and had better teamwork.
dimstiv 8 months ago
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490 BC Marathon - 30.000 Persians vs 11.000 Greeks
480 BC Thermopylae - 250.000 Persians vs 7.000 Greeks
479 BC Platea - 120.000 Persians vs 40.000 Greeks
when you fight for your freedom sometimes numbers don't matter
dimstiv 9 months ago
i'm bloody sure the spartans were really pissed they missed this, they were looking for a good fight all the time
BayouBluesMan 9 months ago
Guess who the Greek commander was? A guy with persian blood lol.
VictumRoManius 9 months ago
Spartans:Here we are !! Where are the Persians we re gonna slaughter??
Athenians: sorry guys we have already won the battle..
Spartans: Damn, we missed all the fun..
TheKILLA317 9 months ago 2
Do I sense someone mispronounced Miltiades?
yefi2 10 months ago
@yefi2 YES! Damn it! My name is Miltiadis (yes, I have this great honour) and in american english it sounds like shit. In current greek it sounds completely different, but nobody knows how it actually used to sound like back in 490BC.
NatK1981 1 month ago
That was such a good plan. GO GREEKS!!!!
quin1058 11 months ago 2
where is the macedonian when this happen
luckyprince164 11 months ago
@luckyprince164 The Macedonian's submitted to Persia in the second invasion, during the classical age macedon was pretty backwards and useless, only when Alexander the Great's father Philip come along did the Macedonian's become a force to be reckoned with.
ImaginedWriter 9 months ago
2:00 heat of summer didnt they mention September?
September should be pretty pleasant time as its approaching a Mediterranean mild winter.
sushanalone 11 months ago
@sushanalone Not back then 0.O
VenomCankill 11 months ago
@sushanalone
Man, it's October in Malta and it's still very hot(20-30 degrees Celsius). In September, temperatures in places like Southern Greece, Sicily, Crete, Malta etc are still extremely hot compared to colder European climates.
Our Winters are like Nordic countries' summers.
BlackPanteraSociety 4 months ago
@BlackPanteraSociety ok i just read about general weather in the region when i posted the comment, might be hot at specific areas. lol i am not the one to question not been there.
sushanalone 4 months ago
God i wished i could go back in Time and fight there!
1UnitedStatesSpartan 11 months ago 2
Thydippies=CHUCK NORRIS SUPERHUMANS IN DISGUISE!
jasincl 11 months ago
Spartans were true beast.. they won the war before they even entered the battlefield XD
ratorannui 11 months ago
Summary: The Athenians fucked alota shit up
beastafy 1 year ago
Now Spartans have nightmares!
sumps1998 1 year ago
spartan tourists had to pay tickets to enter the battlefield
luka007ll 1 year ago 92
@luka007ll lol
TheDiego1255 1 month ago
@luka007ll
its strabge for now but back then, the celebration of sacred days was really holy. the spartans were veru strict when came to tradition. sparta was the city of tradition. well...athens too actually, before they became a naval power:) and the spartans maybe wanted something more...its big conversation
AENAOS1980 3 weeks ago
@AENAOS1980
* strange
AENAOS1980 3 weeks ago
Wooow, Killed 6500 Persians and only loosing 192, impressive fighting skillz!
Gizmodio92 1 year ago
@Gizmodio92 look the battle of gaugamela kill ratio : 80 000 persian for 592 macedonians, hehe.
BaTBaiLeyS 1 year ago
Steel-tipped spears? Hardly. Bronze would have to do, but that would -easily- be good enough to skewer the Persians
Aslaug75 1 year ago
@Aslaug75 I thought they used bronze for amour and shields, but were able to smith iron swords and spears? Not steel, but still
rogerfraserr 1 year ago
I wish they'd do these documentaries with Napoleon Total War as well.
TerraceArchimedes 1 year ago
Whats with that historian dude's Joker like smile. Creepy...
Mistermax30 1 year ago
THIS IS SPARTA
TheMegatron2 1 year ago
the spartans may have missed this battle, but they were key at the next one, thermopylae
143259 1 year ago
@143259 Omg no they wernt Yes The 300 Spartans played there part but they didnt fight the whole battle there was 7000Other Greeks there and it wasnt just 300 spartans at the last stand while Athens was fleeing to salamis. 700Thebes also stayed and fought to the death respect them aswell not just the 300 bloody spartans
SulFuriiCxDzyR 1 year ago
should the 300 spartans plus many more greeks!!!
jassell73 11 months ago
Thydippedies:
Ran from marathon to sparta [x]
Ran back to marathon [x]
Fought [x]
Ran to Athens [x]
Didn't die like a girl [ ]
N0nC0mprende 1 year ago
@N0nC0mprende Lets see you run from marothon to athens
music7293 1 year ago
I wonder where they got their battle statistics.... from the game? 6500 dead Persians and only 192 dead Athenians!
DJBuckCallYo 1 year ago
@DJBuckCallYo why so surprised? once the greeks reached the persian line, they were unopposed to the light desert infantry. Miltiades thinned his center so that the Persians would run through the hole in the middle, and be incircled. the only damage the Persians could have done was archer kills.
brokennailstudios 1 year ago
poor poor Phillypides
great great Phillypides
guadch 1 year ago 2
the spartans missed the party
santycora1 1 year ago
fuckin spartans and their full moons
MsBaseball19 1 year ago
They should of continued this series it would of been fucking amazing. Imagine Decisive battles for Medieval and Empire Total War.
skittlesareyum48 1 year ago
@skittlesareyum48 I agree with you. History Channel war a truely history channel, now he has programs like Ice Truckers that have nothing to do with history.
guadch 1 year ago 2
@skittlesareyum48
Empire kinda blows to me...too much micromanaging. I like the setup in Rome better.
DandBMonk 1 year ago
I don't know my heritage... but oh what rejoicing I would partake in if I found out I was ScotsGreek
geturphil69 1 year ago
Greek soldiers : WHO'S NEXT !!
persian soldiers : Runnn !!!!
xmaple1x 1 year ago
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Numbers didnt mean anything. Tactics and Brave warriors Wins !!
xmaple1x 1 year ago
the greeks were very cool and still are
raaspider 1 year ago
@raaspider their not cool anymore
ashif21 1 year ago
gyrofoam1 is right, I think. If one of these ancient men were to go head-to-head in any physical challenge with a 21st century man, the 21st century men would have his ass handed to him over and over again.
I also think that the fear death to the ancient man would not stop him as much as it would make a modern man wet himself. Even if modern man managed to stab the ancient man clean thru, the ancient man would still fight on and kill the modern man first.
seafireliv 1 year ago
the badassnes of the greeks were 2000 years ago!!!!! WTF!!!! seems like 30 O_o
Herpkid56 1 year ago
lol hit there own soilder a guy runs then a arrow shot to there nuts nutshot:D
showfire100 1 year ago
Just for the record, the runner sent to Athens to report the victory did not drop dead after giving his report. There is not a single mention of that happening in any of the histories. Herodotus nor Euripides mentioned it and they are the only two credible historians on the battle. But further, it was not even mentioned by less credible historians. It's just an urban legend that makes a more dramatic story.
Rikki0 1 year ago
@Rikki0 It was more like, " Hey we kicked their asses. Anybody got a bottle of Avion? You gonna eat all that sandwich, bud? "
Rikki0 1 year ago
How can a human run for days? O.o
I'm 16 and when I run as fast as I can, I last for like 10 minutes...
27POP27 1 year ago
@27POP27 That's because you don't live in 490bc - you will Never know how people lived at that time. Believe it or not - they didn't even have playstation either. History is too mindboggling for most people, who are born into the society we live in now, to comprehend - that is why it is a Threat.....people see things like e.g. the Pyramids, or Stonehenge and say "There's no way 'people' could've done that, they must've had help from Aliens".
gyrofoam1 1 year ago
@27POP27 In the army we had to run 1 mile in an hour, just a matter of running often enough and eventually you can run longer without exhaustion.
Tyrfingr 1 year ago
@Tyrfingr 1 mile in an hour is 1.6km's in 60 minutes.Mate i could run that in 3-5 minutes.Im in the NZ army and we have to run 12km(7.4 miles) in 45 minutes.If you have to run 1 mile in an hour your Sgt must be super obiese(No offence)
WRH90059 6 months ago
@WRH90059 Sorry i'm way too used to our metric measurements. 1 Mile = 10km for us, naturally in combat gear, weapons and the whole shebang. Any longer than that i think would have killed someone, those MAG58's as you know don't weigh 2 grams. Obviously it was a failure if the whole group didn't make it regardless if you were spearheading the bunch. As the Captain said to the guys who broke from the group to win "In wartime we're not interested in moving one individual to a specific point"
Tyrfingr 6 months ago
@Tyrfingr Oh right i forgot the US uses a completely different metric system to us.For most militaries its full equipment,fully loaded weapons too.Get you ready for what could be a withdrawl under fire.Got to be fit.
Indeed,a nice quote mate.Its about caomradeship and not to leave gaps between the unit(if you were in a combat situation)
WRH90059 6 months ago
@WRH90059 Im from Sweden ;) we are using the Metric system up here. And you English speaking lot are using two others i believe, US customary and the Imperial. I tell ya, it has driven me bonkers more than once everytime i have had to convert to and from.
Tyrfingr 6 months ago
@Tyrfingr very very true....nz pwns XD
CCCP307 6 months ago
Actually, the runner from the battle field when he entered Athens went straight to the Agora (i.e. market place) and said "νενικήκαμεν" (nenikikamen) which translates exactly to "we have won".
panagdimi 1 year ago
Then he died from exhaustion. Legend has it that the runner was Fidipidis but this could not be true. Fidipidis was the runner/messenger sent to ask help from the Spartans. The name of this (actually first marathon runner) Athenian is still unknown.
panagdimi 1 year ago
what's this program?
any more shows?
juliusyeung0330 1 year ago
no, the runner said "Nikey!" as in victory in greek
dirt0bike00 1 year ago
show that where we get the name from "marathon run"
littleviet18 1 year ago
Greeks,Thebians and Spartans saved the rest of Europe from bullshit middle-eastern culture. If it wasnt for them Europe would be Islamic today :). One day well have to repeat what Spartans did, and kick bullshit Islam out of Europe. No, im not trolling, im just telling my honest opinion.
Legolasas26 1 year ago
@Legolasas26 no, if Persia had conquered all of Europe we would all be zoroastrians.
and during the Middle Ages, the Muslims were WAY more advanced than the Christians, they were the ultimate of science, mathematics, astronomy and weaponry, so without Islam we wouldn't be what we are.
But anyway all religions are useless today, we should kick out ALL of the religions, including christianity.
AlexOfMacedonAOMH 1 year ago
@Legolasas26 also, the Spartans didn't do anything very useful against Persia. They didn't hold them off against Xerxes at Thermopylea, Athens was still burned. Then when Alexander started conquering Persia they refused to participate, it was all the Corinthian Leage and Macedon.
now please go read some history and stop using 300 and bullshit average american culture as your sources and come back when you got puberty hair.
regards,
thanks.
AlexOfMacedonAOMH 1 year ago
@AlexOfMacedonAOMH Damn arent you smart, historic knowledge and pubic hair have a lot in common idiot. And what makes you think i used the 300 movie as a source of information about thermopylae?
Last time i checked there were no Thebians in the movie and barely any Greeks.
And really, stop wasting my time with youre never ending comment fights on youtube, cause im not into that geek bullshit.
Legolasas26 1 year ago
@Legolasas26
no you're just into the posting a lot of ignorant bullshit and as soon as somebody proves you wrong you come up with some lame excuse as why you can't even admit you were made to look like some cretin clown.
You also need to realize that the 60 seconds a minute and 60 minutes an hour, and 2 times 12 hours is based on the old Sumerian way of using 60 as the main number. The arabs founded modern surgery and they knew about the importance of sterility long before Europeans knew it
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 1 year ago
@SteveSpicerPortsmuth
was the Romans, not the arabs ¬¬
AllanGarcia88 11 months ago
@AlexOfMacedonAOMH
well said, and thanks for doing all the work for me (and everybody else who are dead tired of those ignorant fools)
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 1 year ago
@Legolasas26
First of all there were no muslims back then. In fact there wasn't for another 1000 years. Also you should know that human civilization started in the middle east, or where you asleep in history class when they talked about the ancient sumerians, assyrians and babylonians. They lived in Mesopotamia, which is where today's Iraq is in.
The Spartans didn't kick muslims out of Europe you first class idiot. There were no muslims and neither did the Spartans did most of the fighting
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 1 year ago
@Legolasas26
As a matter of fact those "bullshit middle easterners" preserved a lot of the knowledge of the ancient world and took great care of ancient books and scrolls. Unlike the crusaders that sacked Constantinople on their way to the holy land and destroyed thousands of irreplacable works of art and knowledge from the ancient world.
Speaking of muslims. Your idol Hitler even had muslim SS divisions. The bosnian muslim SS Handschar and the albanian SS Skenderbeg. Your opinion is stupid.
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 1 year ago
@Legolasas26
I'm with you, but the modern greeks are lazzys XDD
AllanGarcia88 11 months ago
i think Athens just pwned persia at marathon
rkhale02 1 year ago
STUPID persians: and the stupid runner guy: umm.. lets run 22 miles at sprinting speed... then die. SMART ONE
DaviesMotionPictures 1 year ago
@DaviesMotionPictures he ran to sparta then to marathon then fought at marathon the to athens
SuperTonyOrtiz 10 months ago
On the point of archers and Spartans, yes they thought archers were a woman's weapon, but only for true Spartans. The auxiliary non-spartan born units that helped Spartans used throwing weapons, bows, slings etc.
shariItachi 1 year ago
rome total war they are using..... 0.o
kenyuan1 1 year ago
pedophilostesticolos is the greatest greek general of all time.
punongkahoy312 1 year ago
mrbigck81, its pheidipidis, not Feidipidies
josephLchen 1 year ago
Spartans: "k guys we're here to help what's happened so far?!"
Athenians: "Yer you're a bit late"
Spartans:"O.o oh........damn"
russelcrow11 1 year ago 49
@russelcrow11 lol
mcfrandy 1 year ago
if daidis had sailed around back to marathon, his army may have been able to land before the spartans got there, and if not they would have been able to face a smaller force
Zackr27 2 years ago
LOL, 6500 CASUALTIES TO 129 CAUALTIES, and the Persians thought they were winning XD
spinynorman230 2 years ago 5
@spinynorman230 The Persians seemed to never fare well against the noble Greek City States. Thermopylae, Plataea, Salamis, and let us not forget Alexander's campaign against the Achaemenid empire.
Koguryeo19 2 years ago
I wish they'd make a movie about the Battle of Marathon.
2242bzo 2 years ago
Frank Miller's follow up to the 300 will be based on the Battle of Marathon (it's true) ... my friend, you're wish just came true!!
bbokos 2 years ago
Lol,the spartans were like "How did they do that?These Athenians beat back the persians!??!...Wow."
Shroshoe 2 years ago
I loved the story so much I wrote a song about it , THE PLAINS OF MARATHON
From my album THE OLIVE TREE
billygilmore008 2 years ago
PROUD TO BE GREEK
HellBastardsCrew 2 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
proud to be notgreek
luvTHYtower 2 years ago
well, what can you say, upgraded Armoured Hoplites from the Greek city-states faction obliterate light and crappy Desert Infantry. (although the Carthaginian Sacred Band are the best hoplites in the game...)
xD
steelpanther88 2 years ago
greeks are iron people
soldier7799 2 years ago
greek history is incredible :D
xXMoMoXxMK9 2 years ago 6
this is rome total war game, i hope they make one with medival total war
CrusaderAaron 2 years ago 2
@CrusaderAaron this show is over
hrvat0306 2 years ago
Its a shame that the Plataeans don't get a mention at all. They're little city state provided every man they could (about 1,000 hoplites according to Plutarch) as they're polis was allied to the Athenians, and they fought on the left flank, were given equal burial rights with the Athenians and shared in the religious rites dedicated to the Athenian patron gods after the battle.
bimini 2 years ago
Those marching spartan if turned into suare form defending the back of each other They will be unstopable in the game!
albert24killer 2 years ago
what game sounds interesting?
41htdex 2 years ago
The game is Rome Total War. It is my favorite rts
WarrioroftheHellas 2 years ago 3
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AntiSCO 2 years ago
It's funny how no one discuss why the persian's attention was drawn to Athens in the first place. The Ionian cities, which had been part of the Persian Empire since 545BC, revolted with the help of Athens, against Persia and marched against the regional capitol of Sardis, burning it down. After the persians put down the rebellion, they decided to set an example of Athens for helping to sow discord in the empire. It should be noted that Ionia had considerable autonomy under the persians; ...
azartash 2 years ago
That was the catalyst for this.
callahan9119 2 years ago
It's funny how it is never mentioned why the persian's attentions were even drawn towards Athens in the first place. The Ionian greeks, who had been part of the Persian Empire since 545BC, revolted with the aid of Athens, and burned down the regional capitol of Sardis. It should be known that Ionia had considerable autonomy under the persians; that the reason for the revolt was because the Tyrant of the Ionian city Miletus made a gamble for power, failed, and sought to redirect the ...
azartash 2 years ago
What an extraordinary battle! Amazing! XD!!
ScreaminEagle17 2 years ago
They would have raped the persians - christ the spartans were a brutal fighting force.
lord69z 3 years ago
Perhaps, but the spartans would have probably fought traditionally and would have been thinned out by arrows.
azartash 2 years ago
Their egos were a little too big for their own sake.
Didnt they regard arches as cowardly?
I somehow cant picture a country nowadays saying " Guns are too cheap, they are a womans weapong, we use swords! "
lord69z 2 years ago 3
The runner didn't die from the 26 mile run...
He ran to Sparta for reinforcements (140 miles) and then ran back (140 miles).
THEN he fought in the battle.
THEN he ran 26 miles with news of victory and collapsed dead (and who could blame him)
JohnHolt69 3 years ago 13
thats why he is remembered at every olympics
fukin legend!
blainegammon 3 years ago 6
whats his name
spartanK42 2 years ago 2
Chuck Norris
thunderflash82 2 years ago 5
oh yeah forgot :)
hercules is also his descendant