The Ekdromoi | Historical Warfare

[@samwill7259]

Wearing a helmet that allows you to breathe when under stress is one of those things that isn't really negotiable.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

The Attic helmet will be coming up a lot in this years videos, focused my research on one particular century, and it just appears everywhere. :)

[@Oxbowmars5103]

When it comes to your talking about the armor, you say that the hoplites use bronze cuirasses which usually wasn’t the case usually it was a linothorax armor or linothorax with bronze scales attached, also the dori spear heads were usually iron and not bronze, bronze spear heads were using by the bronze age greeks

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

So yes and no. Greek armour went through stages of popularity. Bronze Cuirasses both muscle and bell varients were way more popular during the Greco Persian wars and a bit into the Peloponnese. As that war dragged out and more soilders were needed the linothorax became increasingly popular as it's just so expensive to buy bronze armour. Xenophon's campaign is sort of wedged neatly in this transition period. After this we have the Corinthian war when it seems the linothorax was itself temporarily dropped only to have it return during Thebes rise to power. After that it remains pretty much the go to armour varient although there is some evidence to suggest that after the Celtic invasion the hemithorax became widely used in the Peloponnese and then if we technically count the Seleucid/Ptolemaic Greek armies gradually they began to adopt scale/chainmail into their versions of legionaries/Galatian bodyguards. Then of course you have the Bactrian kingdoms favouring scale armour. There's also interesting developments in magna Grecia around this time where lamellar armour and scale armour proved popular because of the more mobile nature of warfare. Gradually certain states suchs as tarentine just ditched body armour all together in order to respond quicker to Samnite/bruitii raids. A good example of Greek armour changing over time is Etruscan hoplites where they seemed to have gone from bell Cuirasses to scale linothorax and then eventually just a tunic :)

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

So they are kind of a mix between regular Hoplites and Peltasts? They also kinda remind me of Alexander's agrianes.

[@matthewtilley7175]

Bro love this shitt awesome

[@Dimitriterrorman]

ekdromoi also means trip

[@hia5235]

very interesting didnt know they existed

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

neither did I until around half a year ago! honestly Xenophon is a treasure trove of stuff you don't know about greek warfare

[@RexOedipus.]

@@AncientHistoryGuy Most ekdromoi are formed because of a failure in preparation on the commander's part. Their roles should've been covered by lighter euzonoi, but since they're not some unfortunate lads are now "ekdromoi" and like most of the times this happened they lose the battle.

[@micahistory]

Interesting, never heard of them

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Neither did I!

[@theromanorder]

Another great one josh But um... why the new voice actor?

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Actually is the old voice actor! Alex! I'm really busy at the moment and recording audio takes the most amount of time. I asked Alex is he wanted to help out and he said yes, really happy with the results tbf! Me and Alex actually have multiple projects going on at the moment one of which is nearing completion ridiculously soon so stay tuned for that!

[@theromanorder]

@@AncientHistoryGuy looking forward to them man I realy love these videos and look forward to the day u can higher more crew ao u can make like 4 videos a week... mabey even more

[@anitagray2066]

​@@AncientHistoryGuy 😊

[@Broderline]

Good videos

[@Seth9809]

Wow, this is a longer video!