I would prefer an actual person, but a mythological person is good also.

Xenophon, the intelectual mercenary!

The took 10,000 Hoplites, from the heart of the Persian empire after their generals were murdered, organized elections to elect the new leadership (they called them "the marching democracy") and took them all the way to safety at the Greek conolies of the Black Sea defeating every enemy that stood in their way and always fighting infront of his men.

On top of that, he wrote a book about his adventure after their return!

read it here: http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/84/author_id/36/ - http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/84/author_id/36/

Not the kind of warrior that's implied in the thread title, but the kind of warrior that I like!

Poor Nicias.

He was both honorable and pious, well intentioned but also cosmically unlucky. He meets ultimately with tradgedy, if Athens had but heeded his call for caution and patience they might not have met with such disaster as they did; hotter head prevailed however

Achilles!!!!!  Just kidding. 

Now for historical warriors.  I wonder if Alexander the not pretty good but Great counts as Greek.  If so, he is my choice. 

r u blind? the guy said greek warrior not macedonian!!??

btw, my vote goes to Achilles

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When will they ever learn !!

Originally posted by Menippos Only in the life after...

only if we r greeks in the other life

Not true, you need not be Greek to learn history, and to realise that the Ancient Macedonians were Greek. However, you do need to not be a propagandist and falsifier of history. That is obviously beyond you and others like you who espouse your beliefs.

  Leonidas is a great warrior and commander go tell the Spartans

Odysseys

Fighter, Clever, Lover  the  perfect  Warrior

Johnny Darko, you are the first person i ever meet to have Cleon as his favourite greek.

However, the suppression of Mytilene's defection is counted on general Pahes account, and Sphacteria on my fave pet, Demosthenes.

"Sphacteria"

Good morning

But the final victory was obtained by Cleon, in 21 days as he promised

Who is your favourite Greek warrior?

He must be Greek--> his ancestors were Argive exiles to Makedonia

Some people on this post mentioned that certain warrior's could have beaten him in hand-to-hand combat. Perhaps. He was no giant physically. However, he had the constitutional of a lion. He fought in every battle, often endangering his life. A king leading from the front! How often does that happen (Spartans excepted)?

I once read the definition of a hero. It said he was:

 - 'one whom had a desire to validate the esteem in which he is held by people'

- 'a craving to gain for himself some form of glory which will outlive him'

He lifted Makedonia from a Greek backwater to world-wide attention.

He raised again the honour and respect  of the Greek people, so that they became again the men of Thermopylae and Plataea.

He removed forever the Greek enemy and invader - the Persians. By not just defeating their armies, but razing their capital. And then he became their King.

He conquered the Persians and their allies, the numerous Scythians tribes, and the innumerable Indian tribes, against overwhelming odds, thousands of miles from home.  

He is remembered in the Islamic world as no other foreigner has ever been - as a semi-religious divine warrior (except Iran, for obvious reasons).

He is remembered by Arabs as a mighty king. He is remembered by Indians as a gracious king and fondly regarded by Afghanis and Pakistanis as a hero.

There is no question in my mind. There will only ever be one Greek warrior above all. That legendary descendant of Herakles and Achilaos.

Alexander the Great.

Nobody spoke of MAUSOL (can we call him Greek?!)

He build one of the seven wonders of the old age, and he fought with Greek on every occassion. And he looked good.

I guess you mean the satrap of Caria Mausolus but i doubt he was Greek.

So many to choose from. Philip and Alexander were two warriors that were above and beyond so many, Kings that actually fought. Ajax and Achilles according to the Illiad. Cleon (no, not from the movie the Warriors). Brasidas, King Leonidas, etc.... Great question. I guess I'm not able to narow it to one. Unfortunately, I missed a good many warriors in that list, both famous and the lowly soldier who was a fierce beast on the battlefield whom nobody remembers.

i think that the fact there were so many Great Greek Warriors in such a neck and neck race to out do each other is what made them great each warrior tries to imulate and often out dose them but yes im at a cross Leonidas was proboly the most noble of Warriors of then Philopean i didnt spell that right but owell i think that over all i would have to say that Alexander proboly was the Greatist warrior although Leonidas could take him out in and instant face to face

My friend pilot

The Aleks (probably Alexander) and Philip killed many Greeks as also and  another Greek leader Pausanias killed a lot of Greeks in the battle of Plateans against Mardonios. The civil conflicts in the Classical periods between the Hellenic tribes were a common habbit in order to show who was the ruler of the Greek world.

Regarding now the Plateans battle of course you know that the Greek allies of the Persian army composed of  Macedonians, Thessalians, Locres e.t.c. and were put all together in the right side of the Persian army formation.

Now as about the thread i repeat that the bigest Greek warrior was Odysseas because had everything that must have a warrior.

Hard to say, but these 3 are my favorites:

1. Leonidas

2.Miltiades, because it was the first that win a battle with a weak center (Belisarius did it in Daras, but miltiades was the first)

3.Phillip the 2 father of Alexander the great. I am from the few people that believe that he was better from his son. Both tactic and the new phallax systen (with the long pikes) was first used by him.

My vote goes to Epaminondas. Revolutionized warfare and changed the whole political / military situation in Greece.

Mameluke

There's another theory that Amompharetos simply misunderstood or was not well informed of the actual battle plan and thus jeopardized the whole operation.

The idea was that the Greeks wanted to lure the Persians out of their defensive positions and to (as a second objective) shorten their supply lines that were suffering from Persian cavalry attacks. Therefore they decided to retreat to a secondary position with the hope that the Persians would think that they retreat and would attack to completely route the Greeks. Amompharetos refused to retreat his unit in what he saw as a cowardly retreat and when morning came the Persians saw the Greeks retreat and Amompharetos small Spartan unit staying alone in the middle of the field. They attacked, the Spartans held but with losses and soon the other Greeks entered the battle to support Amompharetos unit.

The rest in well known, the Persians were defeated. It's interesting to point out that the worst losses of the Greeks came not from the Persians but from their Theban (mainly) and Macedonian allies. No wonder no one held the Thebans in much esteem afterwards...

              Trikopis       

Stop hijacking this thread and start another one if you want to discuss Alexander's Greekness (or better search and revive an old one).

 You will not be allowed to create havoc in this forum.

EDIT - 27.02.2006

Posts deleted and transferred to another thread. I can't believe that another nice thread was killed by mindless and irrelevant posting!

Please continue posting as if this interruption never happened.

Neither will your attempts to hijack Macedonian heritage

If I am allowed to add half-greeks I would say my favorite warrior is Sultan Selim I. Sultan Selim's mother was a Byzantine Princess from Trabizond.  The Sultan conquered Arabia and under him the Ottoman Empire entered the period of its greatest power.