From the ritualized combat of Mycenae to the organization and communal efforts of the Persian Wars, Greek warfare has evolved and the experience of the warrior with it. Through examining the weapons and armor of Mycenae, the Homeric Wars, Archaic Greece, and finally classical Greece, light is shed on how a warrior would have used these tools of war. Furthermore, by examining how a warrior would use different weapons and armor, we can see how a warrior would have fought in the context of his larger army, and why it would have been most effective for him to fight that way. Many factors have been attributed to the development of combat techniques, and almost all are relevant, but some more than others. Though traditional views suggest that the Greek style of fighting evolved to parallel social structures, archaeological evidence attributes the shift in combat techniques (or in some cases lack thereof) primarily to the evolution of weapons and armor.
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Hi Gabe, overall I thought it was a good introduction, but, regardless, I must post three feelings. 1) I felt slightly confused after the ‘light is shed’ sentence. I felt confused because from the sentence before I got the sense the paper would be about the evolution of the warrior, idealistically, and this sentence seems to set up a paper more about the tools and facts of Greek warriors. 2) I also felt uneasy, in general, because you have used the passive tense a few times, and ‘we’ once. I am not sure if this is intentional. 3) I felt more understanding of the whole paragraph after reading the last sentence. It brings together all of the other sentences quite nicely. Although, I would strongly suggest deleting the word ‘though’, entirely. Sounds like an interesting paper, I hope it goes well!