Talk:Battle of Lechaeum

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Contents 1 Questions 2 Modern assessment of Xenophon's account 3 Maps 4 Good article nomination 5 GA and map 6 GA Sweeps Review: Pass

[edit] Questions

Should Agesilaus really be a redirect to Agesilaus II? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me! Are there no illustrations of this battle or its participants? I suspect not, but I would at least like to see what kind of spear got thrown. Some pictures of peltasts, compared to hoplites, even if rather generic and not specifically linked to this battle, would be a great help in understanding just what it meant for peltasts to defeat hoplites. TheGrappler 01:11, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

The Agesilaus article should probably be an article unto itself--I'll fix that when I have time. As far as pictures, it will be difficult to get anything; I just found out that photographs of Greek vase paintings are probably copyrightable, so I'll have to look elsewhere for illustrations. I will be looking, though. Robth^Talk 19:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modern assessment of Xenophon's account

Several people have asked me to clarify the issue of Xenophon's reliability and how this affects our assessment of his account. I've expanded a footnote to clarify this; what do people think? Robth^Talk 01:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this is an improvement. Unfortunately, Wikipedia seems to be lacking images of either hoplites or peltasts (I found two hoplite images, both apparently copyvios) so they can't be included in the article. One possibility, like the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest, would be to include an image of the location. This might be quite useful actually, since the elevation of the area is important. If not, is a map possible? I'd at least like to know where Lechaeum is (the fact that it was near Corinth is a start, but I'm no expert on Greek geography)? Things like the local elevation are actually quite important to the article. TheGrappler 16:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

I made a map of the area in ancient times - you might want to check that I have got all my captions and locations correct! TheGrappler 18:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

That looks excellent--I'm going to go add it in at Corinthian War. The one change you might want to make would be a spelling issue; the town you have listed as Sikiona is usually referred to as Sicyon in classical history discussion. Thanks for making that, and what program did you use, by the way? Robth^Talk 22:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good article nomination

This article is good and, in my opinion, good enough to gain Good Aricle status. I do, however, have some advice if it's to become FA:

• The lead needs lengthening to 2-5 paragraphs per WP:LEAD.
• The "aftermath" section needs to be 2+ paragraphs long: sections should be no less than 2 paragraphs, in general.
• Overall, it's short, is there really nothing more to write?
• I'll merge the two reference sections together.
• Add some External links and possibly a see also.

Congratulations! --Celestianpower ^háblame 22:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

FA? Eeep! I'm not sure there's enough information on the subject to be thinking about that. This is actually one of my favorite parts about what I've seen of the GA process--it provides an attainable standard for articles like this one that, by their nature, aren't ideally suited to be FAs. Robth^Talk 22:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA and map

I think it's a good point that sections should be 2 paragraphs long, but this may well be the most comprehensive it's possible to get! Yes, this is one of the big advantages of the GA process. One of the other things that is good is that it encourages people to sort out things like references and image copyrights even if they're not gunning for FA... I think that's a great thing, since it's often neglected. If you look at the image description page it includes details of the PD online mapping system I used to get the terrain - then I used the PrtSc button to capture the image and I used to Photoshop to erase the Corinthian Canal (too modern!) and to add the towns and captions. I'll see what I can do about that name. :) TheGrappler 23:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Sweeps Review: Pass

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "Conflicts, battles and military exercises" articles. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. It would be beneficial if the source later in the article would also be added to the intro sentence "This marked the first occasion in Greek military history on which a force entirely made up of peltasts had defeated a force of hoplites (heavy infantry)." Also, the battle section should have more sources included, with at least one per paragraph. Although it states that there is only one source for the entire battle, it may still be beneficial to put it after each of the three paragraphs, instead of just the last one. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have edited the article history to reflect this review. Regards, --Nehrams2020 21:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)