Hoplite

... my goal with the notes is, and they're at the back for a reason, 'cause if people ignore them, great.

My goal is to help people who, if they do have a question about Hoplite or Yahweh or, uh, imaginary scholars giving terrifying sermons, they can go, "Oh, okay, he made that up," or, "This is an old reference to Socrates, and he's just kinda goofing around here." Uh, uh, as I said in the preface, to, to me, the, the best art, uh, shows and never tells, if that makes any sense.

Yep, it does.

Are you guys-

maybe they did.

There was something like the Hoplite soldiers or whatever.

I don't know if it was Sparta.

I got to look it back up.

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And in the Crown Yourself tier, Emperor of the First French Empire, Todd Campbell, Duke of Wellington, Laird Campbell, Poultry Prince of Pukalani, Bob Burnham, First Lord of the Treasury, Ryan Diamond, Child of Wellington, Jarl Brian Silcott, and Two Jacobin to Crown Oneself, Dan Hazelwood.

Rob Coughlin, Bruins Girl, Noah Fink, Myles Reedy, Nick Overland, Graham Goodwin, Anthony Gumbel, Anonymous American, James Fluick, Natasha Hobday, Rod Schwager, Chris Kimball, Ted Andrews, Richard Scott Anderson, Arthur Forgy, Sam Moore, Wyatt Pollock, Joe Ayres, Peter Findlay, Steve, Jean-Baptiste Van Merlin, Adam Coslin, Tessa Blaber, Walker Wonders, Daniel Friedman, Neil Reed, Jonathan Willett.

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And in the Crown Yourself tier, Emperor of the First French Empire, Todd Campbell, Duke of Wellington, Laird Campbell, Poultry Prince of Pucallani, Bob Burnham, First Lord of the Treasury, Ryan Diamond, Child of Wellington, Jarl Brian Silcott, and Two Jacobin to Crown Oneself, Dan Hazelwood.

They've got more advanced military tactics.

Hoplite soldiers from Greece were trained in a specific type of fighting style that really was a new strategy and very effective strategy in the ancient world.

And everybody wanted to hire Greek mercenaries at that point, which is why you have them showing up on both sides.

You have them throughout Judah, you have them in Babylon, you have them under the Persians later.

And in fact, they suffered a really humiliating defeat on the island of Bacteria, which is very small in terms of the numbers involved, in terms of the effect on Sparta.

But it was this huge blow to the Spartan reputation, because not only were they beaten by Athenian light-armed troops, you know, the great, vaunted Spartan hoplite, but they surrendered.

The Spartans actually, of their own volition, laid down their arms and were taken prisoner.

And at that point, everybody in the Peloponnese was like, you know, this myth of Spartan superiority and indomitable fighting prowess shattered.

He is given an enormous armada.

He is given 100 Athenian tribunes plus a whole bunch of allied ships.

He's given 5,000 hoplites to go along.

He's given cavalry and light-armed troops and masses of money.

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The Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC is remembered for his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, but he was much more than that.

And we will revisit that idea before long.

Hoplite, safe to say, the Scots have been America's favorite World Cup guest.

I think Boston might adopt the Tartan Army.

It's been hilarious watching all of the various Tartan Army folks bouncing around Boston, singing, drinking, doing what they always do.