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• The first strategy was actually employed before any fighting took place at all. Religion
• Songs were sung (the paian - a hymn to Apollo)
• this gentlemanly approach in time gave way to more subtle battle arrangements where surprise and strategy came to the fore.
• Strategies and deception, the 'thieves of war' (klemmata), as the Greeks called them,
• Strategies and deception, the 'thieves of war' (klemmata), as the Greeks called them, were employed by the more able and daring commanders. The most successful strategy on the ancient battlefield was using hoplites in a tight formation called the phalanx.

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