CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peltast, Lechaio, Hoplite
6 Sep 2017
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Persians were fully clothed in war while the nobility of the greeks shines out when they wore no clothes. Intro: greece was never in political unity, each city state was independent, fierce independence of poleis and lack of physical resources led to near constant warfare among greeks, lots of border wards. Infantry: homeric warfare, chariots, myceneans did have chariots but used for transportation. Athenians: so it may have been more gradual and not invented by them, nature, panopoly, hoplon shield, long spear, or short sword, helmet, bronze breastplate, greaves (shin pads) Spartans: left side was argued by athenians vs eugians, athenains for peace gave this up and went in the middle, victor sets up trope, trope = like a trophy. If you had more ships than your enemy you then made a periplous and get them from the back: diekplous, sailing through, forming a circle. If athenians were outnumbered then they would do this: bronze ram onfront of the ship.
