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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"
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