Greek Hoplites were heavy infantry soldiers, citizen-soldiers who equipped themselves when called to fight for the poleis or ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it ... the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought as a team. They lined up in ranks and locked their ...

Each year the ephors, or magistrates, chose the 300 best hoplites in ... In previous centuries Greek warriors had worn very thick, heavy armor, much of which, by the classical period, had been ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it ... the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought as a team. They lined up in ranks and locked their ...

According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides ... perched on the open top of the trireme, would be up to 30 hoplites infantrymen. Once the trireme had engaged with the enemy ship, either ...