“Tissaphernes pursued Xenophon with a vast force, and when the Greeks reached the wide and deep Great Zab river, they seemed to be surrounded. A Rhodian proposed a plan in exchange for a talent; all goats, cattle, sheep, and donkeys were to be slaughtered and their bodies stuffed with hay, laid across the river, and sewn up and covered with soil so as not to be slippery. This was refused, for it would have been impossible to implement, and so the Greeks simply turned around, with the Persians refusing to pursue.” – Anabasis
LGP747 on
Wouldn’t it have been funny if cyrus the great was all like ‘why didn’t you just..’
Edit: wrong emperor
gerkletoss on
I mean it’s basically an animal hide pontoon bridge, right?
The inuit used to use sealskin floats connected to harpoons with ropes to prevent whales from diving during whale hunts.
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“Tissaphernes pursued Xenophon with a vast force, and when the Greeks reached the wide and deep Great Zab river, they seemed to be surrounded. A Rhodian proposed a plan in exchange for a talent; all goats, cattle, sheep, and donkeys were to be slaughtered and their bodies stuffed with hay, laid across the river, and sewn up and covered with soil so as not to be slippery. This was refused, for it would have been impossible to implement, and so the Greeks simply turned around, with the Persians refusing to pursue.” – Anabasis
Wouldn’t it have been funny if cyrus the great was all like ‘why didn’t you just..’
Edit: wrong emperor
I mean it’s basically an animal hide pontoon bridge, right?
The inuit used to use sealskin floats connected to harpoons with ropes to prevent whales from diving during whale hunts.
I’m not sure it’s actually a terrible idea