如果斯巴達戰(zhàn)士處于巔峰時期,他們能夠成功抵御羅馬帝國的進攻嗎?
Would Spartans be able to successfully defend themselves from the Romans if they were in their prime?
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網(wǎng)友:一支由大約10,000名重裝步兵和幾千名后勤部隊組成的斯巴達軍隊,面對羅馬的強大力量?這不是一個嚴肅的問題。
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Bruce Jurin
A Spartan army of what, 10,000 hoplites and a few thousand supporting troops against the might of Rome? Not a serious question.
一支由大約10,000名重裝步兵和幾千名后勤部隊組成的斯巴達軍隊,面對羅馬的強大力量?這不是一個嚴肅的問題。
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A Spartan army of what, 10,000 hoplites and a few thousand supporting troops against the might of Rome? Not a serious question.
一支由大約10,000名重裝步兵和幾千名后勤部隊組成的斯巴達軍隊,面對羅馬的強大力量?這不是一個嚴肅的問題。
Unlikely - individual fighting skill wouldn’t be that important if the Romans were serious about fighting Sparta.
不太可能——如果羅馬人認真對待與斯巴達的戰(zhàn)斗,個人戰(zhàn)斗技能就不那么重要了。
我們可以假設,斯巴達的重裝步兵在直接對抗中會比羅馬的兵團士兵更強。然而,羅馬通常不需要按照斯巴達的方式與他們作戰(zhàn)。首先,羅馬可以征召比斯巴達多得多的兵力,斯巴達幾乎不得不采取防守陣地。其次,羅馬可以通過海上封鎖和圍城戰(zhàn)術將斯巴達城市圍困至饑餓。羅馬可以獲得足夠的支持,以在戰(zhàn)場上保持補給,超過斯巴達能夠承受圍困的時間。
One of my favorite things the Romans had been known to do was build walls around the place they were besieging, effectively having their own fortifications containing the besieged foe.
另一個問題是,斯巴達的赫洛特(奴隸)始終是其弱點,羅馬人可以利用這一點——赫洛特有充足的理由叛變或背叛斯巴達。羅馬曾經(jīng)做過的一件事是,在圍攻的地方周圍修建城墻,從而有效地為圍困的敵人建造了自己的防線。
What does Rome want? A lot of these hypothetical deathmatches of “who will win” miss out what the victory conditions are and assume they just want the other side dead no matter what the cost - and that’s not normally how wars are fought.
然而,政治在戰(zhàn)爭中是一個巨大的因素。
羅馬想要什么?許多關于“誰會贏”的假設性死亡比賽忽視了勝利條件,并假設他們只想不惜一切代價讓對方死去——但這通常不是戰(zhàn)爭的作戰(zhàn)方式。
羅馬人可能不會覺得派出整個軍團無限期圍困斯巴達是可行的,他們也可能不愿意就這樣讓城市一點點被摧毀。這就變得更復雜了,因為如果斯巴達人是在為生存而戰(zhàn),而羅馬人則不是,那么羅馬人可能不會那么投入。
If we assume the helots stay loyal to Sparta, that changes things.
如果羅馬人沒有控制能夠重新補給其軍隊的盟友,這也會改變局勢。
如果假設赫洛特忠誠于斯巴達,那么局勢也會發(fā)生變化。
Could the Roman legions at the top of their game have beaten the Spartans?
Please don’t believe all the hype about the Spartans. Sparta was a small city with very limited resources. It had an unusually well-trained and disciplined army, but it was nothing compared to the military might of Rome.
羅馬軍團如果處于巔峰狀態(tài),能擊敗斯巴達嗎?
不要相信所有關于斯巴達的夸大宣傳。斯巴達是一個小城市,資源非常有限。它擁有一個異常訓練有素和紀律嚴明的軍隊,但與羅馬的軍事力量相比根本無法相提并論。
The Romans were better equipped, better trained and with superior technology. And their entire social structure and the sheer size of their city almost ensured victory.
羅馬人在多個場合輕松打敗了斯巴達。有時他們甚至根本不需要真正作戰(zhàn),因為他們更強大的外交技巧和后勤能力使他們能夠在單一圍城戰(zhàn)中調(diào)集數(shù)萬兵力。
羅馬人裝備更好,訓練更精良,且擁有更先進的技術。他們的社會結構和城市的龐大規(guī)模幾乎可以確保勝利。
I’m pretty sure of it. The Roman shields were designed to be held close together (they had straight sides), with just enough room between them to stick a short stabbing sword. This was almost impossible to penetrate. In their tight ranks, and supported by cavalry, archers, and slingers, they were very hard to stop.
我?guī)缀蹩梢钥隙?,羅馬會贏。
羅馬的盾牌設計是緊密排列的(它們有直邊),之間只有足夠的空間插入一把短劍。這幾乎是無法被突破的。在緊密的陣列中,加上騎兵、弓箭手和投石手的支援,他們幾乎難以被阻擋。
Absolutelly not.
The cost of a spartan was immense compared to that of a roman legionary, far beyond what the quality difference between the two would justify.
The spartans would never have had the logistics to stand before the romans.
絕對不會。
斯巴達人對比羅馬軍團的成本極其高昂,遠遠超過了兩者之間的質(zhì)量差距所能解釋的范圍。
斯巴達人根本沒有足夠的后勤能力來與羅馬軍團抗衡。
Absolutely not.
The Spartans required coalitions- they had a sizable portion of the Peloponnese in their control, but the rest of the peninsula and indeed Greece needed to maintain an alliance with them in order for them to project power.
絕對不會。斯巴達人需要通過聯(lián)盟來維持力量——他們控制了伯羅奔尼撒的大部分地區(qū),但整個半島乃至希臘其他地方需要與他們結成聯(lián)盟,才能確保他們能投射出足夠的力量。
當羅馬進入希臘時,已經(jīng)擁有一支龐大且經(jīng)驗豐富的軍隊,這支軍隊剛剛征服了西西里島、高盧南部、伊比利亞和非洲西北部。斯巴達人曾試圖利用羅馬人和其他希臘城邦之間的矛盾,但最終失敗了。
即使斯巴達人能夠聯(lián)合其他力量對抗羅馬,他們的軍事組織、戰(zhàn)術和技術都已經(jīng)過時,且依舊缺乏足夠的兵力。公元前479年的普拉提亞戰(zhàn)役中,盡管包括科林斯、雅典、西錫安、邁錫尼、墨伽拉、特吉亞等城邦在內(nèi)的希臘大聯(lián)盟人數(shù)也約為10萬,可能更少。然而,羅馬能夠召集同等規(guī)模的軍隊,比如著名的坎尼會戰(zhàn)中命運悲慘的9萬人,而且羅馬的軍隊在組織、指揮和裝備上遠勝一籌。羅馬仍然會占據(jù)優(yōu)勢,尤其是考慮到斯巴達的盟友在機會來臨時會拋棄他們。
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羅馬通過巧妙利用當?shù)氐恼尉謩菡鞣讼ED:亞加亞人、馬其頓人、古斯巴達人和埃俄利亞人之間的斗爭。斯巴達人也曾試圖這樣做,但由于缺乏財富、軍事力量和外交技巧,他們的成功遠不如羅馬。
斯巴達人依賴的是他們在波斯戰(zhàn)爭中建立的聲譽(甚至得到了波斯的支持)以及與雅典、底比斯、波斯和馬其頓的仇恨來構建他們的聯(lián)盟,但羅馬同樣善于進行這種政治博弈。事實上,羅馬的盟友不僅僅限于希臘,他們的軍隊里也有來自亞洲、歐洲和非洲的士兵。斯巴達已經(jīng)過了巔峰期,而羅馬則正迅速接近自己的巔峰。
The Spartans would fall.
即使是斯巴達在巔峰時期,也無法與馬其頓的腓力五世匹敵,而羅馬則在塞薩利的一場血腥沖突中擊敗了他。羅馬沒有波斯那樣的后勤問題,且技術比三百年前更為先進。斯巴達最終將會失敗。
Not if the Romans were serious about making war on Sparta.
The Romans had access to far larger manpower reserves than the Spartans could dream of, and the Romans were notoriously dogged and determined. The Spartans never fielded more than 5000 full Spartan citizens. A single Roman legion is approximately 5000 men…not counting auxiliaries.
And also…a Roman legion of, say, the first century was far better trained and equipped than the Spartans in their supposed heyday.
如果羅馬人認真對待與斯巴達的戰(zhàn)爭,情況就不同了。
羅馬擁有遠比斯巴達想象中的更龐大的兵員儲備,而且羅馬人以頑強和決心著稱。斯巴達人從未能調(diào)動超過5000名全體斯巴達公民的兵力,而一支羅馬軍團大約就是5000人……還不算輔助兵員。
此外,像公元一世紀的羅馬軍團,其訓練和裝備遠遠優(yōu)于斯巴達的黃金時期。
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In war, one never knows. However, even at their peak, Spartans were beaten by other Greek cities in battle, so they were not superior to everyone. This is because Spartans were not the war machine that we see in movies. Spartan society was an outlier among Greeks, but they did not have a standing army that trained as an army on a continuous base. Greek warfare was based on units, so individual fighting skills only went so far.
戰(zhàn)爭中,永遠無法預知結果。然而,即便是在最強盛時期,斯巴達人也曾被其他希臘城邦擊敗,因此他們并非無敵。斯巴達并不是電影中所呈現(xiàn)的戰(zhàn)爭機器。斯巴達社會在希臘中算是一個異類,但他們并沒有像現(xiàn)代軍隊那樣擁有一個常備軍,持續(xù)進行集中的訓練。希臘的戰(zhàn)爭基于各個單位的配合,因此單個的戰(zhàn)斗技能也有限。
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Rome also had vastly more resources than Sparta.
當羅馬征服希臘時,比如在第一次和第二次馬其頓戰(zhàn)爭中,他們的軍團中有很多來自第二次布匿戰(zhàn)爭的老兵,這些士兵經(jīng)驗豐富,訓練有素,并且能夠作為一個整體協(xié)同作戰(zhàn),這也在他們的勝利中得到了體現(xiàn)。
羅馬的資源也遠遠超過斯巴達。
Having had a look at your profile, I saw that you are very much into video games etc.
If/when you might decide to move out of this frx of mind and look at real life, you will realise that things are not like the video game designers and Hollywood “historicals” would have you believe…
看了你的資料,我發(fā)現(xiàn)你非常喜歡視頻游戲等。如果你有一天決定從這種思維框架中跳出來,看看現(xiàn)實生活,你會意識到事情并不像視頻游戲設計師和好萊塢的“歷史片”讓你相信的那樣……
This, however, came at the cost of a continuous fear of the enslaved Messenians/Helots revolting and killing their masters, which happened in the Messenian wars and other, lesser, uprisings over a few centuries that the Spartans suppressed and not easily.
斯巴達人生活在一個小城市,這個城市通過征服并奴役鄰近的人民來確保必要的勞動力,供養(yǎng)自己。然而,這也付出了代價,那就是持續(xù)對奴隸梅西尼人/赫洛人起義的恐懼,梅西尼戰(zhàn)爭以及其他一些較小規(guī)模的起義發(fā)生在幾個世紀內(nèi),斯巴達人雖最終鎮(zhèn)壓了這些起義,但并不輕松。
這種局面造成了:a)斯巴達人生活在持續(xù)警覺的狀態(tài)中;b)他們作為男人,把一生都奉獻給了為抵御反叛奴隸的戰(zhàn)爭做準備;c)他們沒有時間從事哲學、戲劇、科學或其他任何事物。
The reason the area of Sparta was not often conquered lies in the fact that, except for the actual small plain surrounding the city itself, the rest is rather barren and not really worth any conqueror’s time and effort to have it.
所以,好吧,他們是優(yōu)秀的戰(zhàn)士,僅此而已。
斯巴達地區(qū)不常被征服的原因在于,除了圍繞城市本身的小平原,其他地方相當貧瘠,并且不值得任何征服者為此付出時間和精力。
Thebans, right in their home area, in the 4th c. BC, while still in their prime, but subsequent armies didn’t find it worth the effort to bother with them… which is not exactly because of their bravery.
Now… in a hypothetical scenario, facing the Romans in open battle, the Spartans would have been massacred in no time flat, though I very much doubt that the Romans would bother with actually sending an army to occupy the area, besides in Roman times the Spartans were, like all other Greek cities, paying their taxes to Rome like all good Roman subjects.
因此,回答你的問題的關鍵在于上面所說的……即使在巔峰時期,斯巴達人也曾在公元前4世紀被底比斯人擊敗,就在他們的家鄉(xiāng)地區(qū),而后來的軍隊沒有覺得值得花時間去對付他們……這并不是因為他們的勇敢。
現(xiàn)在……在一個假設的情境中,面對羅馬人,斯巴達人在公開戰(zhàn)斗中會很快被屠殺,雖然我非常懷疑羅馬人會派軍隊去占領該地區(qū),畢竟在羅馬時期,斯巴達人和所有其他希臘城市一樣,像所有忠誠的羅馬臣民一樣向羅馬交稅。
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Hollywood fantasies and video-game-heroics are not real life… History IS.
幾個世紀后,同樣是這些斯巴達人,他們將由擁有土地的寡頭統(tǒng)治,他們將向貧窮的農(nóng)民征稅,并支付部分收益,其余部分歸自己所有,交給統(tǒng)治整個希臘及其周邊地區(qū)的奧斯曼政府。然而,他們?nèi)匀粫浅W院赖馗嬖V你,“土耳其人從未踏足馬尼”,馬尼是該地區(qū)最南端和最貧瘠的部分。好萊塢的幻想和電子游戲中的英雄不是真實的生活,歷史才是。