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Dec. 18, 2021, 5:19 a.m.
- Description
- Back in the 80s, Peter Krentz gathered all known casualty figures from Classical Greek sources in order to establish a rough average.1 He concluded that in battles of Greek against Greek, the winner suffered about 5% casualties, the loser about 14%. These numbers are very frequently cited in scholarship. They seem perfectly straightforward, but it's not really so obvious what they actually mean.
