The Ditchlord comes back to us now - at the turn of the tide. So happy to see Dr. Roel again in one of these videos.
@lry81339 ай бұрын
"The Ditchlord" - I'm dead.
@Ganiscol9 ай бұрын
I raise my spade in salute to the Ditchlord ✊
@FlyingDropBearAU9 ай бұрын
DITCHLORD IS SUPREME
@fincorrigan71399 ай бұрын
My name is Ditchlord, Digger of Diggerss; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
@le135799 ай бұрын
To steal another commenter's thunder, don't forget the rocks that cost nothing and hurt people.
@hasanmatloob378810 ай бұрын
Thanks to Dr. Roel, the first thing i look for now when i visit ancient ruins is a ditch. What a legend.
@Danktation7 ай бұрын
Na those with ditches would’ve survived. The ruins u see dont have ditches, which is y they’re ruins
@antoniousai198910 ай бұрын
Yes, but did the Spartans have the technology to produce tools capable of creating a proper ditch and moat defense?
@lenabreijer131110 ай бұрын
Antler picks?
@tomvandongen80759 ай бұрын
Just as important, did they throw rocks that cost them nothing and hurt people??
@MarkFilipAnthony9 ай бұрын
Whst tools? If u don't have a spade u have a pole, if u don't have a polr u have hands. Making a ditch or moat isn't hard at all
@jarrodbright52319 ай бұрын
The city of Sparta famously had no walls. It did however have a ditch.
@will-i-am-not9 ай бұрын
You have internet, look it up and educate yourself, then you would not be making comments such as yours, as you would already know the information. But you have proved the old saying correct. If it was not for freedom of speech, we would not know who the idiots are
@HenryElfin10 ай бұрын
The answer is ditch, lots of ditches. When you finish one ditch, you make another ditch
@jdelark64288 ай бұрын
"Sergeant, that ditch needs another ditch!"
@firingallcylinders29498 ай бұрын
Yo Dawg I heard you like ditches
@krdxz7 ай бұрын
I would even venture as far to say as that the answer is to ditch whatever else was being done and dig another ditch. ...provided, of course, that the previous task to be ditched is not digging the ditch itself.
@rokker3335 ай бұрын
The legend goes that "300" does not refer to the number of Spartans but to the number of ditches they dug to hold back the Persians.
@gundarsmiks488910 күн бұрын
@@HenryElfin its also how you got a wife back then. You found a woman. And dig a ditch around her so she cant leave!!! Boom. Marriage!
@ManchuArrowLauncher10 ай бұрын
This man is a legend and I built several ditches as soon as I saw this you tube video drop
@jonasdauerbrenner6432Ай бұрын
where?
@veselinjokanovic30328 ай бұрын
I could listen Dr. Roel for hours. He explains everything so well and his voice is very pleasant to listen to. Also, I've learned the importance of ditches.
@blakeprocter58189 ай бұрын
I knew there was going to be ditch comments, and I was not disappointed. Lol. I love watching Roel talk. His passion for history is contagious.
@thecraftyhistorian9 ай бұрын
KZbin - trying super hard to be Tiktok 2.0 by ultra promoting short videos People - just happy to watch a massive history nerd talk about his favourite subject for over an hour without any edit, camera move, gif insert or AI voice. Yes please, more of that. We do make time for that kind of content.
@arislanbekkosnazarov96448 ай бұрын
Also YT: people aren’t taking too kindly to shorts. Let’s promote them even more over things that are actually our core competencies
@fe2478 ай бұрын
@@arislanbekkosnazarov9644 KZbin been losing money hand over fist since their beginning, they have no core competency, they r desperate to make actual money and not only spend 😂😂😅
@RaccKing218 ай бұрын
I just like long videos because I can play it, and not have to keep switching to a new one. These long vids are great when you're doing housework, walking somewhere, or even just eating (not having to drop the food to pick a new vid every couple minutes is nice).
@adoramus6 ай бұрын
So true.
@eni1else4 ай бұрын
I would watch a 50 minute lecture by this man on ditches.
@IsaiahWymer9 ай бұрын
I could listen to him all day. Absolutely fantastic. Oxford is lucky to have you sir! Love this channel. Please bring him back for more discussions.
@regularspecial18 ай бұрын
This man is a gem that needs to be on youtube more often.
@Doodlebob5639 ай бұрын
The biggest thing I've learned about Sparta is that apparently waaaaaaaaay too many people took the movie "300" as a historically accurate documentary.
@jamesd21289 ай бұрын
Exactly !
@punkthatiscyber90919 ай бұрын
Literally why I now hate that movie.
@stonewall019 ай бұрын
I feel the same way about Braveheart. lol
@SidewinderNor9 ай бұрын
300, Braveheart, Enemy at the Gates, all entertaining films that far too many people mistake for historical documentaries.
@baker28809 ай бұрын
I keep telling people who complained about The Woman King that, The Women King was as historically accurate as 300.
@Pabst_Comandante_I.9 ай бұрын
The Return of the ditch King. We‘ve been waiting too long for this
@grahamstrouse11658 ай бұрын
The Ditch King of Denmark!
@seedo2018 ай бұрын
Its nice to hear a commentary on the spartans objectively and on depth, avoiding the myths and propaganda
@wellingtonsboots40749 ай бұрын
Really looking forward to this. If only the Spartans had dug a ditch at Thermopylae. More Dr Roel please!!!!!
@WBtimhawk9 ай бұрын
Jokes aside, I seem to recall that the allied force there did build a makeshift wall but the ground being kinda rocky probably didn't lend itself to ditch digging.
@le135799 ай бұрын
That's a serious question to put to the Dr.
@vasili97569 ай бұрын
Correct @@WBtimhawk
@RaccKing218 ай бұрын
@@WBtimhawk Skill issue
@mangalores-x_x7 ай бұрын
The place had an older border wall which the Greek army is reported to have fixed and/or reinforced.
@michaeldolan678110 ай бұрын
Got my entrenching tool, and now I'm settled in for some debunking of Spartan myths. 😊
@italomorais94248 ай бұрын
Ditches aside, i thought it was a shame the interview was just 20 min, Then i realized i have been listening to this guy for an hour. And he still left me wishing for more.
@nachtschatten87106 ай бұрын
Same here, same here. Fortunately some of his lectures are here on yt as well, so you can dive in. I really envy his students, I would pack my semesters full with his lectures.
@jaytothelu8 ай бұрын
I am a huge history nerd and this guy is one of my favorite speakers
@zippyfinleyadventures9 ай бұрын
He's back !!!! We've prepared many ditches
@coldlakealta40439 ай бұрын
The man is absolutely compelling. I find his presentations uniquely spellbinding.
@Nickph989 ай бұрын
I suppose I can take a break from digging ditches around my house to watch this video
@19Paul919 ай бұрын
I love listening to Roel, I love listening to any historian who has a passion for what they teach/talk about.
@theveryworstluck18948 ай бұрын
If I was enrolled at this dude's university, I would take every class he teaches. Very easy to listen to.
@Fewrfreyut10 ай бұрын
I love Roel. I’ve been a huge fan of his historical analysis since i saw him as a guest on Ancient Warfare Magazine Podcast years ago.
@Redbravo0017 ай бұрын
I didn't know he did a podcast before. Is it on Spotify!?
@Fewrfreyut7 ай бұрын
@@Redbravo001 it is indeed! Roel was on at least 3 episodes
@dudeguyman9610 ай бұрын
They better discuss the legendary 300 ditches...
@OnnoSlot19889 ай бұрын
Great discussion. Love Roel, and also really like the enthousiasm from the presentor! One suggestion/question for the future: can you give a really quick introduction before the interview next time? Just explain in 3 sentences who the Spartans where, from when till when did they live, and what was their reputation? I understand a lot of history buffs will probably know this already, but the average KZbin viewer who clicks on this might not. For example: I'm more of a medieval/modern history kind of guy, and I needed to look up some of the basics on wikipedia after some of the questions. I'm not even sure they mentioned that the dates they're talking about are BC (might have missed this ;)) That being said, lovely video, Keep up the good work!
@nazirkazi25889 ай бұрын
That's always a good intro. 1. What's the subject? 2. Why are we talking about it? 3. What I will say?
@VinnieG-6 ай бұрын
My favourite historian! I just love listening to Roel, he makes me enthusiastic about learning history
@danielcarrillo43859 ай бұрын
The Man, The Myth, The Ditch!!!
@august71348 ай бұрын
I love this man soo much. He explains history with soo much fineese.
@Oryx70009 ай бұрын
This guy is my favorite of this genre.
@w.l.54689 ай бұрын
Great to bring on Roel. Such wealth of knowledge. Very enjoyable to listen to. Also admire your knowledge in the subject, Tristan.
@punishedjesus826010 ай бұрын
Where is the ditch??
@DoctorX10110 ай бұрын
Beat me to it! 😭 He seriously should think of selling merc with that slogan, even if he gives the profits to a charity or, you know, to get a ditch dug.
@eni1else4 ай бұрын
You’ve gotta have a ditch.
@noeldown19529 ай бұрын
Of course they had bronze shields. It's much easier to dig a ditch with a bronze shield than with a wooden one.
@starsworn8053 ай бұрын
If only they dug ditches, how different history would be.
@juliandito8 ай бұрын
my favorite build more ditches guy
@jsullivan21129 ай бұрын
Well son of a ditch! "Wherrrre are your ditches??" Definitely looking forward to this!
@Lowlandlord10 ай бұрын
Ditchs! Lotsa and lotsa ditches! Ditches for DAYS! Love the Ditchs-Guy!
@coldlakealta40439 ай бұрын
my ex-wife did too. She ditched me.
@littleredcar29268 ай бұрын
I'm just here to read the ditch comments.
@theveryworstluck18948 ай бұрын
I've been digging ditches around my house for 12 hours a day ever since I first saw this dude.
@thepragmaticchoice9 ай бұрын
These Spartans used their prowess and reputation instead of ditches and moats, truely their downfall
@Angela-en6oh9 ай бұрын
A very informative and riveting conversation which gives a real feel for how the men of Sparta lived.
@austin87759 ай бұрын
I always listen to “The Ancients” love to see history hit give Tristan a KZbin pod!
@nachtschatten87109 ай бұрын
He is finally back!!! YESSSS, our Master of pointy sticks and the Overlord of the Ditch.
@tomtruyens98049 ай бұрын
Now THIS is the kind of content I love.
@aokiaoki42389 ай бұрын
"Spartan love was not obscene. If a young man dare to tolerate lewdness against him or if a young lover tried hubris to someone else, it wasn't in the interests of none to ashamed Sparta so in such a case they were both forced to leave Sparta or loose their lives" «Σπαρτιάτης δε έρως αισχρόν ουκ είδεν είτε γαρ μειράκιον ετόλμησεν ύβριν υπομείναι είτε εραστής υβρίσαι, αλλ΄ ουδερέροις ελυσιτέλησε την Σπάρτην εγκαταμείναι ή γαρ της πατρίδος απηλλάγησαν ή και το έτι θερμόμετρον και του βίου αυτού.» Aelians various history § 3.12
@TheLucanicLord8 ай бұрын
* lose. Epic fail!
@klaudioabazi44789 ай бұрын
The Spartans were good, but apparently they were even better at PR. By repeating their myths they managed to dominate Greece for a while, until the Thebans saw through it and broke their hegemony.
@v4enthusiast5419 ай бұрын
The Peloponnesian war and the Helot uprisings were painful scars on their power
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
Granted, all the hyping up of the Spartans was mostly done by Athenians lol. Those damn laconophiles(Xenophon)
@XTheLolX3019 ай бұрын
He needs to review the historical accuracy of The Great Wall (2016)
@louisetrott55329 ай бұрын
That was utterly fantastic! Took me back to 3 Unit Ancient History classes at high school.
@Bontheimer6 ай бұрын
Love his take in ancient history
@jackjack33589 ай бұрын
52:00 I had this question for a VERY LONG time. Thank you for answering it!
@mohammedsaysrashid35879 ай бұрын
Thank you ( history Hit) for this magnificent historical coverage video about Spartans ( one of the Helenic civilizations ) ..
@darren6898 ай бұрын
I need a part 4 of the Lord of Ditchingham and until I get it I will dig many ditcges in anticipation for this mans return
@justinlast2lastharder7498 ай бұрын
Of course they have the Ditch Guy talking about "diggin' em out" too. Makes perfect sense.
@ma-kalte4 ай бұрын
I absolutely enjoyed this video thank you and keep up the good work👏
@haroldchase41209 ай бұрын
Very informative. Though I still am reminded of how long it took to train rock solid troops in the 17 and 18 th century. It took a few years to fully train those men .
@WalkerLarson4974 ай бұрын
I think another reason people stress this physical prowess, is because when you train sports, whether it’s combat, weight lifting, calisthenics, endurance, aerobic, anaerobic, swimming, or anything that pushes you both mentally and physically. You gain little nuggets of information from them. From boxing you can gain timing, from wrestling it’s endurance and courage, running it’s mental toughness and drive. This goes for every sport. But when someone trains like this YEAR round, and they train like its their job. They are going have a sense of unity and an edge in combat. That in my mind is why they’re so dominant and have such pervasive myths.
@geckotoe8 ай бұрын
Love this guy! More ditches!!
@JNKArts887 ай бұрын
My 6 weeks daughter was trying to break my finger, and I wondered why. Now I understand. Thank you😌
@roballister52698 ай бұрын
omg it's him!!! Ditch guy is back lesssgoooooooo!!
@alexaales79373 ай бұрын
I actually came to youtube today to watch the aftermath of the us presidential debate, but watching the ditch king is wayyyyy more interesting. as always ty, dr. ditch!
@tobias0648 ай бұрын
I love this guy
@everett60729 ай бұрын
"Imposed Conservatism" is a great summation of Sparta's institutions and culture. Greatly enjoyed listening to this, although I feel like one aspect of Spartan Culture and Society was left relatively untouched; the orientation of society around the enslavement of a far, far, far, more numerous population. The threat of helot revolts was an ever present danger for Sparta and a constant effect on the Spartan psyche. A big reason so much uniformity and readiness was demanded was because they didn't want to give any opening for a slave uprising.
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
Exactly. They certainly would’ve had a good reason to have a battle ready population given their entire lifestyle depended on keeping a whole population enslaved
@Jimpo989 ай бұрын
I find your video's lack of ditches disturbing...
@Liam_Mellon9 ай бұрын
Is there a good book about Spartan history I should read?
@williambrock35349 ай бұрын
More of these please. This was excellent
@OWULax179 ай бұрын
Interesting! However, while I understand that the concept of “Ancient Sparta” may be a very glorified, exaggerated, and misinterpreted version by many today, I feel like he goes out of his way to make Sparta sound like it’s nothing special. Or worse, that it’s the same as other contemporary city-states of the time. But, if that’s the case, how does that explain their unparalleled success on the battlefield and countless Archaic and Classical authors regaling tales of how different their society was from others? I dunno, it just doesn’t add up to me. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle… 🤔
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
From what I’ve read, it’s generally accepted that they were the best, but only marginally. There’s no evidence they had specialized weapon training, so scholars think their X factor on the battlefield was their unit cohesion. Spartans lived together and dined together in the common mess, so they were largely in sync, making them a fierce opponent. All other city states would’ve been a bunch of civilians thrown into a phalanx. This small X factor would’ve been enough to give them a big edge over other Greek city states. So to answer your question, they weren’t just your average Greek militia hoplite. However, they were not the ultra special forces ancient soldiers that some people think.
@leonardoferrari48529 ай бұрын
Their success was far from unparallel: they lost against thebe and became subserviant to the achean league
@wishesandfishes9 ай бұрын
Not to mention they only won the Peloponnesian war against Athens because they were being bankrolled by Persia and the Athenians didn't understand epidemiology (Plague of Athens). Sold out their fellow Greeks to the Persians, artificially inflated military reputation, vicious and prolific slaveholders (even for the time). The Spartans were not cool.
@sjohnson48828 ай бұрын
@@thucydides7849 That fact that there is no evidence that they had specialized weapon training does not mean that they did not. The fact that there is no evidence that I brushed my teeth a year ago Tuesday night does not mean that I did not. No evidence means simply that.
@MarcusVinicius-lq9hs3 ай бұрын
Fenomenal! Tragam o Dr. Roel mais vezes
@paulinemarneri2979 ай бұрын
Xenophon ,'Hellenica , also writes about the Spartan shields with the 'LAMDA'- not only Aristophanes
@DrRoelKonijnendijk9 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, he doesn't! He only says (4.4.10) that when a group of Spartan cavalry (which would normally have no shields) dismounted and picked up the Sigma shields dropped by their Sikyonian allies, their commander challenged the overconfident enemy with the words "By the twin gods, these sigmas will decieve you!" All we can glean from the passage is that Sikyonians would be recognised by the sigma on their shields; there is no reference to any Spartan shields here.
@ingloriousbetch43029 ай бұрын
@@DrRoelKonijnendijkyep.
@paulinemarneri2979 ай бұрын
Yes , Lamda is not mentioned in the shields of the Spartans in this paragraph of Xenophon , just one would think the reason for this change of shields by the Spartan leader , did the enemies carefully consider what kind of shields they had against them ?This is an hipotesis of course ./Παυλίνα Μαρνέρη
@DrRoelKonijnendijk9 ай бұрын
@@paulinemarneri297 The Spartans were cavalry. They had no shields of their own, so they picked up the Sikyonian shields to be able to fight on foot.
@karlsenula94958 ай бұрын
I REALLY enjoyed that.
@kraigthorne35499 ай бұрын
1:30 What he failed to mention is that the Spartans were the undefeated champion of propaganda. The founders of Sparta never wanted to go to war, so they thought about what caused war and what prevented nations from going to war. What they came up with is, wars are started because one nation has something another nation wants, and wars are prevented when the surrounding nations think that they can never defeat you. As a result, they became a closed society and when they let foreigners in, they hid all their wealth and told the foreigners that they hated luxuries and money, so they had none.
@minimannik9 ай бұрын
Sparta won the peloponesian war and every major battle for at least a couple centuries though 😂 they never lost pitched battles until Epiminondas of Thebes finally caught them out.
@mrwhat50948 ай бұрын
Thanks for admitting you literally know nothing about Spartan history.
@kraigthorne35498 ай бұрын
@@mrwhat5094 It looks like you do not know what the word nothing means.
@kraigthorne35498 ай бұрын
@@mrwhat5094 When I wrote leaders, I should have said founders. Sparta fell because they went against their founding principles.
@S.ClauseАй бұрын
@@kraigthorne3549after a few hundred years 😅
@gustavgyll32916 ай бұрын
No matter what anyone thinks they know, without ever being in an armed force you don’t know anything about drill. It takes time to learn formations. And it takes years to perfect them. To just get out on a line formation in a squad might seem to be easy. But it takes weeks and months to perfect it or to even do it well. To perform and formation in larger units takes even longer. To perform modern combat formations in a company takes years to perfect. To form up an army in the way the Spartans are known to have done is almost impossible for a non professional army. It takes weeks to make a pluton of conscripts to just walk in formation on level ground.
@gerrycrisandy242514 күн бұрын
When faced with a bit of decent strategy, Spartans (with larger forces) lost to the Thebes in the battle of Leuctra.. maybe the drills were overrated eh?
@gustavgyll329114 күн бұрын
@@gerrycrisandy2425 real war is not a video game, sometimes you lose even when you’re the better force!
@gerrycrisandy242514 күн бұрын
@@gustavgyll3291 so when Sparta lost, it’s down to chances since “it’s not like video games” but when they won, it’s because they’re simply better? Yeah haha. Spartans are not professionals, they just happened to be well equipped because they were rich and were able to allocate more time for war because they had slaves to tend their fields.
@ashleytaylor76218 ай бұрын
one point id like to add as just my own hypothesis about the quote " come back with your shield or on it" what if it just means "win" as to say, you come back with your shield without any wounds, or you come back being carried on your shield wounded in either case the fact that you come back home means you won the fight as otherwise the saying would be "come back with your shield or don't come back at all." just my own view as I cant imagine the Spartans would ever think of the possibility of defeat as if they ever ask themselves "oh but what if" then that's it they are screwed, the battle is never lost until you think its lost as to the showing of the 300 Argives vs 300 Spartans 1 spartan managed to comeback but because he wasn't dead to that spartan that means that he won.
@j0hncarp9 ай бұрын
The return of the king!
@sinjudow8 ай бұрын
So, we have "focus on body and workout + financially supported by others" = Spartans being basically trophy wives
@gehlesen5594 ай бұрын
You forgot the getting beaten up part.
@123mbo9 ай бұрын
Love this guy!
@jthomp729 ай бұрын
Good to get iphikrates opinion on this! Real ones will know what I’m saying.
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
learning about the Spartan myth actually changed the way I viewed history. It’s the equivalent of learning as a child that Santa doesn’t actually exist. The idea of Sparta is just so extraordinary that it’s something you want to believe.
@skyereave94549 ай бұрын
The most humbling thing about learning of the warriors of the past, is that they arent as special or superhuman as they are made out to bw. Rather, the gap between us and them is within the reach of any man who is willing to go far enough. Not to suggest there werent elite or extraordinary individuals of course.
@minimannik9 ай бұрын
What’s the myth though?
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
@@minimannik the myth is that ancient spartans were essentially special forces level good. There is no evidence they had specialized weapons training. They were better fighters than all the greeks, but only marginally. Their real x factor was unit cohesion
@minimannik9 ай бұрын
@@thucydides7849 By comparison to other Greek states the Spartans were special forces in the art of hoplite warfare. They consistently won battles and wars for an extended period. The reputation is well deserved and should be respected. As for the training, agoge etc there’s ambiguity as to what exactly they did but if Spartans were fitter and more disciplined is that not the very definition of specialised? Do you not see the contradiction in what you’re saying? I really don’t get the point of any of this other than offering clickbait. All people learn here is to be speculative to historical claims. But making the case Spartans weren’t that good? Comical. They were the dominant Greek city state for centuries and you only achieve this through warfare.
@thucydides78499 ай бұрын
@@minimannik regular exercise is not what i mean by specialized weapons training. There is not any evidence that the agoge involved practicing with sword and spear. All evidence points towards the agoge being more of a societal indoctrination program where they were taught to be proper citizens. The spartans lived together and dined together, this factor alone would've given them an edge over all other militia hoplite forces in greece. but keep in mind, The first time spartans went against an opposing professional force, they lost(sacred band of thebes).
@wholelottared61668 ай бұрын
Dr. Dig Sum Ditches. 💯
@nibbleniks23209 ай бұрын
Could those polished brass shields also blind their opponents? Reflecting light into their eyes? And the red (or purple) garments mask injury? Make it more difficult at least at first, to judge impact?
@aokiaoki42389 ай бұрын
Indeed the red chiton of hoplites was to hide their wounds.
@DrRoelKonijnendijk9 ай бұрын
We are indeed told that the red/purple of the Spartan clothing might hide blood, though the main argument was that it was a manly colour. As for the flashing bronze blinding opponents, funnily enough, the ancient Greeks don't talk about this. There are some Roman cases of defeated armies complaining that they had the sun in their eyes, but the Greeks don't seem to be troubled by this. Since bronze was a common feature anyway, maybe it wasn't considered a particular advantage of the Spartans.
@martinzyka64329 ай бұрын
Roel
@Welcometotheclipshow8 ай бұрын
But how we’re the Spartans at building ditches? That’s what we’re here for
@winklenator10 ай бұрын
History Hit, when are we going to see the ditch digging merch inspired by Roel?
@simonb77118 ай бұрын
Man, I’ve had a few wars with Argos in my time
@alexwilliamson148610 ай бұрын
The Spartans could be defeated, they weren’t invincible, oh and at Thermopylae, there wasn’t just 300 Spartans, lots of other Greeks.
@blakeprocter58189 ай бұрын
Including 700 hoplites from Thespiae who deserve to have the same legacy as the Spartans, as they voluntarily stood with them on the last day of battle and fought to the death to buy the others time to withdraw. 400 Thebans also stood on the last day, though unlike the Thespians, they weren't given a choice due to their sympathies to the Persians. The Spartans basically forced them to stay due to their treachery. But by all accounts, the Thespians willingly stayed knowing they would die. It's a shame their heroism was largely forgotten by history.
@Virgil1919 ай бұрын
it’s just because the spartan 300 sounds better than the spartan 300 and the thespiae 700 and a couple thebeians , it’s all marketing
@agesilausii77599 ай бұрын
@@blakeprocter5818 The thebans surrendered and joined the persians. Defeated later at Plataea.
@le135799 ай бұрын
"Why did the Spartans prefer to fight on foot?" Is there a parallel with the English knight of the Middle Ages who also preferred to fight on foot compared with their Euro knight cousins (according to Toby Capwell)? Or just superficial similarities...
@lordcarve7 ай бұрын
The English fought on foot to support their archers which made up the bulk of their army toward the late middle ages. Throughout much of their medieval history they fought similar to the rest of the Europe with mounted knights.
@jeffreyalanwong6 ай бұрын
Ok guys! Roel’s here! Let’s start digging them ditches!! Chop! Chop! Let’s move!! 🤣
@EternalVirgin9 ай бұрын
Hey it's the historian Robert Pattinson, been a long time since I last seen him in a video
@katieheys30075 ай бұрын
An hour with the ditch guy?! Yes I'm in!
@z3k1396 ай бұрын
Great interview, very pleasant story teller you are mr roel. Greetings from Belgium, please start your own channel, no doubt u’d be be very successful 🙏
@Aemond20246 ай бұрын
Roel Konijnendijk letsgoooo
@kmvoss6 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@thetruerift10 ай бұрын
Just started, but I really hope they discuss the incredible reliance on slave labour in spartan society.
@adriandrobnak48975 ай бұрын
Here he is, the man that gets all the ditches!
@SlayerSeraph29 күн бұрын
Legends say he digged a thousand ditches in one night
@TeddyOG2 ай бұрын
'Come back with your shield or dont' would have been a much colder send off for 300 lol
@Alex-cw3rz8 ай бұрын
Ironically the way the training is it would mean longbow men were more of a warrior society than Sparta, as their training started at 7 and it was physical, they would have to sit in fields with a heavy stone in each hand and hold them out, for an undefined amount of time and it was mandated by law to train with a bow and arrow.
@gehlesen5594 ай бұрын
No.
@revinaque13429 ай бұрын
I'm an avid listener of The Ancients on Spotify, and this is the first time I've seen the Tristorian himself!
@musicman7179 ай бұрын
The ditchtorian you mean? 😂
@PinguKrueger9 ай бұрын
While i obviously didn't view spartans in the way 300 presents them , i did somewhat naively assume that brutal elite warrior society without really thinking about it too much. Makes sense, history in general is always so much more nuanced and rational when you actually spend some time reading about the various periods from first hand (or closer to first hand at least) accounts.
@kilianmeier51316 ай бұрын
Your shield is your main protective against the enemy! Armor is your last life-insurance. Without your shield you are in danger. So better keep it!
@Ishkur233 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Sparta infamously boasted that it had no walls. Because it had ditches.
@divicospower91129 ай бұрын
To add something to the shield topic. In Hellenistic Macedonia, you had to pay if you lost or forget a part of your panoplia. The most important weapon that made pay the most? The shield.
@TheLucanicLord8 ай бұрын
If you lost your shield you'd get a firing squad, but it was a suspended sentence.
@EternalVirgin9 ай бұрын
"When they're punished in public by a supervisor and they go home and complain about it to their parents, it's the duty of their parents to punish them again" Huh, I never knew my parents were Spartans as well.
@IDEKaaaaaaaagh3 ай бұрын
Came here from the most recent video because all the comments were going on about ditches and I just have to find out what you're all on about. (Edit:) I did not learn of the comment section's secrets. I did however learn that asking me to subscribe every five minutes is rather annoying.