The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began ... were similar to those employed elsewhere in the Greek-speaking world. Hoplite warriors formed phalanxes, which advanced in lockstep.

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... A highly successful 'war machine', the phalanx was used primarily against other Greeks who obeyed the ...

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“The Men”: A discussion of the physical capabilities, cultural conditioning, and psychology of the “typical” ancient Greek warrior ... as they discuss the rise of Hoplite warfare, its centuries of ...

Sears (New Brunswick, Canada) rather impressively manages to produce an overview of some 1,200 years of warfare in ancient Greece and Hellenic-influenced ... “Bronze Age and Homeric Warfare”, “The ...

"Eros and Polemos: Eroticized Combat in the Trojan War Myth." Exploring Erotic Encounters ... "Agonism" in the Ancient Greek Hoplite Battle." Proceedings of the Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Play ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states.