Athens was the tragic polis, because tragedy was as essential to its political development as was the success of its
hoplite troops.
The Greek
hoplite, heavily armed with body armor, spear, sword, and shield, fighting in tight formation, was superior to the Persian infantry.
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Because there are no ancient texts that comprehensively detail the movements employed by individual
hoplite soldiers, there is also a lack of consensus among modern scholars on how to reconstruct the "
hoplite drill." Christopher Matthew jumps into this fray with a completely new approach to solving the problem.
(7.) For the nature of the sharp end in Greek
hoplite warfare, see Victor David Hanson, The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (Berkeley: Univ.
A storm of spears; understanding the Greek
Hoplite at war.
He finds, based on weights of existing period armor (adjusted for corrosion and missing leather or linen components), that the Greek
hoplite carried between 28 and 45 pounds rather than the 70 or more pounds people had assumed.
Thus the Theban
hoplite force consisted of at least 300 elite soldiers, about 2100 well-trained and experienced Theban soldiers and the rest must have been adequately trained
hoplites from the allies of Thebes.
On a recent blue-sky day, the
Hoplite Hoard trucked my busted bod out to the Rat Canyon Range an' commenced covering all horizontal surfaces with featherweight firearms, knives and sundry accessories.
on one side the regular, maybe-voting American citizen is held in contempt by a
hoplite of the 300 and the millions who are citizens of the confederacy.
In his thesis, Hanson described commonalities associated with the
hoplite that persist through each succeeding incarnation of the Western warrior that includes today's fighting man.