that is good that there is a decent  portrayal of slingers in the movies (or at least one of them), helps the word get out and makes our job of unteaching the media's represetation of the sling so that we can reteach the sling the proper way alot easier.

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Wow....

I'm Smartacus, Sparty's brainy younger brother! I saw that movie on the History channel, too. For the most part, I was pretty impressed with it.

On a show about Pericles, they have the segment with the weapons expert who talked about the asiatic recurve bow.
I typed this as I heard it, and my fingers are slow sorry




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Sorry, I just made a huge mistake on that. I meant to say Pericles, as in, the greek politician who built the Parthenon, but they were mentioning herakles as I wrote the setup up.

It was actually portraying the slingers as a hugely powerful and proffesional force. The segment was about the forces which were used to defend the land's two, 8-mile long, 16 foot thick walls which protected their access to the sea. He talked about how no army would stand a chance because of the rain of arrows from the specially recruited archers. Then he quickly discussed how the slingers were used and were the ones who actually did the aiming - killing officers and such. It seemed to send the message "hugely important, respected, and deadly, but slings are just nowhere near as cool as Asiatic recurves, so I won't give them much time"