A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
A look at history and popular culture
This is, at long last, the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa, IVb). last time we looked at the social status of hoplites and the implications that had for the political and social structure of the polis and even the very basic question of how many people there were … Continue reading Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?
This is the second half of the third part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa, IVb) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we discussed the development of hoplite warfare through the Archaic period (c. 750-480). Our evidence for … Continue reading Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIb: A Phalanx By Any Other Name