DZ Season 063 Part 31. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – Spears and Swords.

True or false? You could grab a Greek’s spear and break its head off with your bare hands.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Tag words: Victor Davis Hanson; The Western Way of War; hoplite; thrusting spear; Persians; Aeschylus; The Persians; Marathon; Salamis; Plataea; Darius; Battle of Thermopylae Pass; Homer;