From Babylon to Italy: The Untold Story of Ancient Greek Mercenaries

From Babylon to Italy: The Untold Story of Ancient Greek Mercenaries

Ancient Greek mercenaries often fought as hoplites, depicted above on a piece of pottery dating to the 7th century BC. Credit: Chigi Painter / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Mercenaries were ubiquitous across the ancient Greek world. More often than not, the citizen-soldier hoplite armies of the ancient Greek city states or the professional Macedonian armies of Philip II and Alexander the Great tend to take the limelight in historical discuss…