Any cool Greek sayings/battle cries?


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The historian Herodotus wrote many wonderful sayings, though they were mostly more philosophical than related to battle.

One of my favourites goes something like:

"The fox has many tricks, but the hedgehog has but one. One good one."

It means that a single effective strategy like the hedgehog's spiny ball defense is better than a multitude of half-baked ideas.

Here's a link! http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html
 
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Heretic Apostate said:


Not quite accurate. It's the Sacred Band of Thebes. Pretty much, yes, it was a homosexual organization. The city wasn't gay. The people in the band were gay. The idea was that you'd be ashamed to retreat, when your lover was watching.

Yadda yadda yadda. 'nuf said.

Thanks for the catch. The Legion of Love was a colloquial term used for them. And you weren't paying attention - I didn't claim the city/state as a whole was gay. Big logistical problems if that happened :)
 

Greek bullywug war cries?

Brekekekex koax koax!

That's what the frogs say in Aristophanes' play, The Frogs. Not a war cry, but it'd sound good coming from the bullywugs.
 


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