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Title: Thesslian cavalry help
Post by: gregernest on 24 December 2012, 05:13:13 PM

Been doing my own web research and just can't find a definitive answer to this.

Were the Thesslians on the side of Sparta or Athens in the Pelopenesian (sp?) wars? or were they mercenaries.

I get the feeling that because they were in the North of Greece, they were with Sparta, but I'd like some other confirmation.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Thesslian cavalry help
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 24 December 2012, 07:27:37 PM

Welcome to the forum.

They sent a contingent to help Athens in the Peloponnesian War in 431BCE under Meno, and also were allied to Philip (and later Alexander) of Macedon during the Macedonian conquest period.

Title: Re: Thesslian cavalry help
Post by: Phobos on 24 December 2012, 10:24:39 PM

Also, afaik, both Philip II and Alexander III were also tagos kings of Thessaly elected by their nobility.

Title: Re: Thesslian cavalry help
Post by: gregernest on 26 December 2012, 01:25:01 PM

Thanks for the intel, gents! :D

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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: gregernest on 24 December 2012, 05:13:13 PM