At the moment we now have a singular Historical past Version of Fight Story centered on Sparta. As , I’m fascinated by the experiences of warriors in fight and I’ve all the time needed to raised perceive what the fight expertise would have been like for veterans from historical past just like the Spartans, Romans, or Mongols.
On this episode, we’ll interview Professor Barry Strauss, an achieved scholar, historian, and professional on historical army historical past. Barry brings to life a really well-known Spartan warrior named Brasidas as we dive into his fight story.
Brasidas led warriors into exceptional battles using standard ways but in addition leveraging particular operations and psychological or hybrid warfare with nice success. Barry offers us a entrance row seat of what it was wish to develop up and dwell on this austere, militaristic, and aggressive society we all know as Sparta.
We couldn’t have performed this with out Barry, who’s a Professor of Historical past and Classics at Cornell College, Collection Editor of Princeton’s Turning Factors in Historic Historical past, writer of eight books, and a army and naval historian and advisor.
Professor Strauss is a acknowledged authority with reference to management and the teachings that may be discovered from the experiences of the best political and army leaders of the traditional world (Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander amongst many others).
He has a brand new guide popping out in March 2022 titled The Battle that Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium.
I hope you take pleasure in this distinctive Fight Story and the dive into the world of Sparta as a lot as I did.
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Intro Tune: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle
Visitor: Dr. Barry Strauss
Host: Ryan Fugit
Editor: Owen Fugit
Present Notes
0:00 – Intro
1:46 – Interview begins
1:55 – Warriors of the Previous
3:50 – Barry’s background
7:18 – Details and Fiction about Sparta
9:14 – The Greek and Persian Empires
12:20 – The Peloponnesian Battle
15:57 – Brasidas, Son of Tellis
17:55 – About Thucydides
18:47 – Lifetime of a Spartan
22:52 – The Hoplites and the Phalanx
23:14 – “You needed to combat as a unit, and also you wanted to not run away when the going acquired tough.”
23:44 – The Secret Service: The Spartan Ceremony of Passage
25:15 – Spartan Ladies
26:03 – “When the boys have been away combating, it’s the ladies who ran the households in Sparta.”
27:05 – “I’d reasonably you got here again lifeless than come again alive with out your defend.”
28:35 – Spartan Loyalty
29:18 – “When Spartan males married, they needed to sneak off to see their wives at night time.”
30:31 –Secrecy as a Weapon.
31:44 – “The Spartans would do unconventional issues to guard their safety.”
32:18 – The Distinction in Brutality in Spartans and Athenians
32:57 – Rising within the Ranks as a Spartan
34:08 – The Spartan Means of Battle
35:48 – The Athenian’s First Encounter with Brasidas
48:58 – “Brasidas is simply an unimaginable chief. He’s a person of wonderful charisma.”
50:58 – Brasidas’ Best Coup
52:02 – The Exile of Thucydides
52:53 – Siege of Toroni
55:31 “It’s not the sort of factor that you simply count on to see from the Spartans. This man’s pondering exterior the field.”
56:30 – Siege Warfare
57:49 – Brasidas’ Quantity One Enemy
1:00:41 – “The Spartan approach of struggle is being on the offensive and combating a traditional battle. “
1:01:20 – “They consider that lengthy hair made handsome males look higher and ugly males look extra scary.”
1:02:09 – Psychological Warfare
1:02:59 – The Loss of life of Brasidas
1:03:00 – “If the Athenians had been midway competent, Brasidas would have been caught.”
1:03:58 – The Professional-Athenian and Professional-Spartan Factions
1:04:29 – Discovering the Potential Stays of Brasidas
1:05:07– “There aren’t different Spartans who interact in ways like his.”
1:06:00 – In some methods, Brasidas is a one-off. In different methods, he has a big effect on future generations of Spartans.”
1:06:30 – Retirement from Spartan Army
1:08:02– Barry’s Upcoming guide – The Battle that Made the Roman Empire
1:11:00 – What excites Barry about writing
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