Wednesday, March 6, 2013

A discussion of hoplites on youtube- my 15 minutes of fame, stretched to 27

Yes, I have been away for a long time.  Luckily I have good reason.  I had to focus on the six-legged Myrmidons so as to finish my Ph. D. this May.  In July I will be starting a post-Doc working on Macrotermes termites that build huge air conditioned mounds wherein they practice agriculture by rearing fungus in what seems eerily like a Biodome. My job will be to analyze the manner in which the termites build their mounds and help a group of robotisists and physicists model the system and teach robots how to build for us.  The eventual goal is to have robots that we can send to places we cannot easily get to, like mars, go there and construct habitats for us that will be ready-made when we arrive.

I have not been completely away from hoplites.  I am featured on a YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edoGJw8Xg0Q


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great discussion!
It's a great resume of your ideas and research on hoplite phalanx!
In my university I was the only student with a experimental approach on warfare!
My teachers where always upset with my fight demonstration in class(lance, helmet, shield in class was a bit scary I think)! Your work on hoplite warfare are, in my opinion, the best basic ideas on the way the ancients Greeks were fighting!

Continue your great work!
From a passionate French Canadian on antique warfare!

March 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM
P. M. Bardunias said...

Thank you. If you ever have comments or questions, feel free to write them here and discuss them with me and others.

March 10, 2013 at 9:52 PM

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