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Pródromos and Hippakontistès Odrysón


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Do you mean they did or didn't serve the Greek City-states?

In any case, Thessaly is a mostly lowland a region between southern Greece and Macedon, famous for it's agriculture and big plains (by Greek standards at least) and in antiquity for it's cavalry. I've seen Thessalian horsemen depicted both as skirmishers and heavy cavalry, and both should probably be true. They also did fight on the sides of various city-states before becoming Macedonian subjects, and even joined the city-states against Macedon at least once after Alexander's death. Many of them migrated eastwards and served as horsemen in the Successor armies. Besides that, it was not uncommon to see Thessalian cities fight against each other or join two opposing sides of a war, not unlike the more famous southern states.

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