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    Default Re: [OT] Need help with greek names again!

    "Kardakes hoplitai"=Kardaka in its hellenized form. I think this is how Arrianos calls them.
    Quote Originally Posted by Alexandrou Anabasis by Arrianos
    At Issos, Arrian says that there were 60,000 kardakes hoplites to the flanks of the Greek mercenaries
    http://www.ancientbattles.com/Issus/...n%27s_page.htm

    Of course Polybios calls them Peltasts, but I prefer Arrian's take on the subject, based on other things he had right when others were wrong.

    "Azat" would be called "Armenioi Eugeneis" in Greek, meaning "Armenian noblemen".

    "Nakharar" well the only two mentions of noblemen closely related to the King would be "Hetairoi" or "Philoi tou Basileos" meaning "Kings' friends" who were most of the times considered a Military unit.
    Last edited by keravnos; 10-17-2008 at 21:27.


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