ber of those participating in the army and the
             increase in importance of the common foot soldier lead to the common man being
             increasingly treated better by the ruling classes.Eventually this may have led to the
             The most noticeable difference between ancient Greek and modern warfare is the
             amount of "intelligence" information. Today our military maneuvers are almost exclusively
             reliant on information we get from satellites, scouts, or spies in the opposition. The ancient
             Greeks totally ignored this area of military strategy. Countless tales of armies meeting each
             other by chance or armies passing within miles of each other without knowledge of the
             other. Intelligence information seemed to have come by chance for the ancient Greeks
             Surprise is also an element of war which in modern times is taken very seriously
             and which was taken very lightly in ancient Greece. In fact there is evidence that ancient
             Greek soldiers raised their voices in the form of a marching song when they were told that
             an enemy was near and may be caught unprepared. This war song, called a paian, was also
             used to promote organization in the marching army so that all soldiers would march with an
             even step. In addition, the paian was used to promote courage and bravery. A paian was
             also used on ships to announce the nearness of the enemy. When the actual battle was
             joined the paian turned into a war cry. The Spartans often accompanied the paian with a
             flute or several flutes. The Spartan King would lead the paian as well. The use of the paian
             for attack appears to have Dorian roots. The Spartans are usually the ones associated with
             the use of a paian. Thucydides mentions that when the Dorians, from other city-states,
             started a paian when they were serving in an Athenian army, fear was struck into the hearts
             Finally the sizes of the armies were very different from what we are accustomed to
             today. We ar...