User blog comment:Gabool the Wild/The Idoicy of the Boxing Hare/@comment-1988904-20100616234355

I'm just going to rant for a moment about the influence of the classical period on Brian Jacques Redwall...don't mind me.

Much of what you see in the Middle Ages originated from the Classical Ages: Greeks and Romans

Iliad/Odyssey/Virgil's Aeneid: swords, spears, walled cities (Troy), sieges (The entirety of the Iliad), warriors in the sense of Heroes: (Hector, Achilles, Odysseus, Ajax), swordsmen, crossbowmen, cities, towns, death sentences, executions, Not as bad hygiene, Kings/Lords, Serfs/Slaves, massive field battles.

Brian Jacques himself said that the Iliad was one of his favorite books as a boy.

It's from Homer and the Classicists that we have the Hero and Villain facing off against eachother

Hector vs. Achilles Aeneas vs Turnus

Matthias vs Cluny Martin vs Tsarmina Matthias vs Slagar et all