Kathleen D Toohey

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Was the heavy cavalry of Alexander the Great the first cavalry to charge home in combat against unbroken enemy cavalry?

In the sixth part of my thesis on Alexander the Great’s battle tactics, I argued that Alexander’s Heavy Cavalry, the Companions, Prodromoi and Paeonians, were the first cavalry in history to have...

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Would anyone be able to offer a better translation, including word by word, of the below quote from Diodorus Siculus?

It's been a long time since I did my one semester of Classical Greek at UQ, and while I can work my way through Liddell and Scott to identify the words, putting them together in a coherent...

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