The Great Simulation Player in Sky

Greek soldiers, he writes, rarely came close to suffering the extremes of physical deprivation associated with trench or jungle warfare. On the other hand, hoplight suffered the devastating experience, almost unknown in modern warfare,. of standing at no more than an arm's length from the enemy and laying into one man after another with spear, sword and ultimately bare hands and teeth. See, this is where ancient combat becomes like my little laboratory for observing us, you know, and what's innate in us versus what's a in an effect of our culture on our development.