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Ambush: Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare

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There are two images of warfare that dominate Greek history. The better known is that of Achilles, the Homeric hero skilled in face-to-face combat to the death. He’s a warrior who is outraged by deception on the battlefield. The alternative model, equally Greek and also taken from Homeric epic, is Odysseus, ‘the man of twists and turns’ of The Odyssey. To him, winning by stealth, surprise or deceit was once acceptable.

Greek warfare if truth be told consists of many varieties of fighting. It’s common for popular writers to assume that the hoplite phalanx was once the only mode of warfare used by the Greeks. The fact is, alternatively, that the usage of spies, intelligence gathering, ambush, and surprise attacks at dawn or at night were also part of Greek warfare, and even as not the supreme method of defeating an enemy, such tactics at all times found their place in warfare when the opportunity or the right kind terrain or opportunity presented itself.

Ambush will dispel both the modern and ancient prejudices against irregular warfare and provides a fresh look at the tactics of the ancient Greeks.

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