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You Can Buy a 2,500-Year-Old Corinthian Helmet Worn by a Warrior in Ancient Greece
A rare ancient Greek helmet is heading to the auction block, where experts expect it to sell for as much as £90,000 (roughly ...
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Bred for Battle—Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine
Each year the ephors, or magistrates, chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis—elite soldiers who formed the king’s private guard. Known as a hoplon—from which is derived ...
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Vase showing Hoplite Battle c.600 BC (Louvre, Paris)
Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal ... a tightly packed shield and spear formation that might be several ranks deep and many soldiers wide. A highly successful 'war machine', the phalanx ...
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The ancient Greeks at war
A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment. Enemy soldiers saw only a wall of spears and shields moving towards them.
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Themistocles' Order for Athens to be Abandoned
He symbolically exchanged his riding equipment for the shield of a hoplite, showing that he had chosen not to fight as a knight, but as a soldier on board one of the triremes. Supernatural ...
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The ancient Greeks at war
A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment. Enemy soldiers saw only a wall of spears and shields moving towards them.