EARLY EPISODE: The March of the 10,000
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Greek Mercenaries get trapped after a job goes wrong. Now, they have to try and find their way home in a series of war crimes, ragers, and making the worst boots known to man.
Sources:
Xenophon. Anabasis.
Robin Lane. The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand
https://www.thecollector.com/ten-thousand-greek-hoplites/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-cunaxa-and-the-march-of-the-10000/
Comments (50)
I think a big part of why the classical era was seen as a golden era is because in the modern era as nation states and centralised governments started to form they were strongly influenced by these ancient institutions and writings on government from the ancients, in contrast to the medieval feudal system which was kind of patchwork.
Is skooma canonically Turkish since it's made from moon sugar?
greekmaxing with tom, the podcast himbo
A positive episode where at least the soldiers who are subjects of the episode mostly made it back in a couple of pieces?! Is this the right podcast?
Meat sock
Touching Tips Across the Bosporous.
In reference to the whole "lovers of greek culture" thing... So you're saying Armenians were the first Gyroboos?
"Gyroboos" what an awesome term.
But when did they fight The Baseball Furies?
That was great! I tried reading the Anabasis and couldn't get past the boring classical writing style with no flair or drama whatsoever, so it was good to get to hear the whole tale
Lmao Afghanistan saved us both from hearing about that shit.
That boot has gotta be how theratopod satyrs became a thing Also I FEEL the Greeks crying out Thalatta in joy, but above all: Xenophon's frustration. Like he must have been "what God did I piss off... "
THE ETERNAL BOOT
T-SHIRT T-SHIRT
Neunundneunsich fleischballoons
Schwimmen I'm der fluss Tigris
What belt is Joe in BJJ? And Tom enjoy the journey. OSS!
Blue belt with 2 stripes. However, I am very rusty lol.
The Greek East coast/West coast rap beef was just the Peloponnesian war
Where does Megachusetts fit into Greater Armenia vs Greater Kurdistan?
I would absolutely kill if for a bonus episode Joe, you did a fictional lions led by donkeys telling of some of the famous battles in WH40K
Spartan hip-hop is just what Nazi rap would be if sung by a statue pfp.
Shout out to all the Skyrim references…we all know Thom and Joe both start with original builds but fall to the curse of stealth archer build’s inevitability.
I am guilty of this crime
A new Prince of Persia game came out this year lol. It's excellent Tom!
Admittedly, it was pretty dead for a while, but yeah, it came back really strong if you like 2D platformers!
Accidentally made two new fans in the most ridiculous way possible. This podcast is my sunday dicking around in the garage with carpentry/mowers and gardening shit etc. Go to. My wife happened to mishear the word anabases as "ana-baptist" and asked...oh does he mean like (J) family? ...i said no hun, but since she is coming over later i should let you listen to an episode about something called the munster rebellion....those girls are NOT having the sunday they thought they would lol
the like post merc job prospects thing blows cuz it fully just goes all the way down to like, if youre a security guard for a couple years it becomes a lot harder to actually find a job in a different field and it sucks x.x
Xenophon! Come out and play-ee-ay!
Fuckin beat me to it
This is exactly what we needed after the last 4 weeks. Bravo bravo
What is have surmounted from the beginning is this.“ I believe P-Diddy, due to all the lube and male sex prostitutes, was spiritually Spartan. Some might say P-Diddy is reincarnation of an officer in the Band of Thebes. We believe Bad Boy Records is the Band of Thebes reincarnate, but instead of phalanx formations and massive spears, we got fire lyrics and Usher wrestling Diddy for the Last Box of cereal.” My source to back this claim up is I made it the eff up.
He's just "Diddy" now. He said the "P" was coming between him and his fans. Which honestly seems more like an R Kelly problem.
I guess I should have played Skyrim back in high school like all my other friends.
If you want to spend like 5 more hours on these events the History of Persia podcast did a less funny but more in depth series on this. https://hopfulmedia.com/
I genuinely wonder how many times Joe has said the phrase “most of their men had no water” during the run of LLBD
So we know that Tom hates Crossfit, but he likes running. So what about Hyrox??
God, I miss the era where Carlgon of Akkad was some obscure arsehole
For a split second I thought we are gonna look at the Long March and how the Chinese Red Army nearly annihilated itself by crossing the same damn river four times.
A self destruction and hemorrhaging of one’s troops for little to no gain….the Chinese Red Army must have been doctrinally Spartan I see.
So are we to believe that Sparta was governed by an… Ephor Mafia?
Government running entirely on Copenhagen wintergreen long cut, 37% chariot loans and dating Persian strippers.
Tripping my balls off on skooma laced with sleeping tree sap (In ancient Anatolia)
My dude invented ancient Greek kayaks and explained it so badly he was laughed out of the building. Well, campfire.
Khajiit has wars if you have coin
The XL Bully knows where it is because it knows where children aren't
WARRIORS, COME OUT TO PLAAAYAAAY
For Tom: Anabasis is the name of an album by a French post-metal band and it's actually pretty good
I always enjoyed Anabasis
Are the streets in Greece slippery?