Hoplite

fielded professional hoplites, year-round infantry not subject to the normal restrictions…

underlines the lifestyle of the typical farmer-soldier aka hoplites in ancient Greece, which is another one of many reasons for the decisiveness of the battles the west has always preferred. The average hoplite was a farmer and while willing to go to war, preferred that the war didn’t last more than a single-day as he had to get back to his farm and not lose out on any standard of living he would otherwise reap. Moreover, these hoplites fought on foot on most occasions due to the unavailability…

Archaic Greece was a period in time which innovation, development, and revolution changed the course of physical, geographical cities and political ideology. The “polis” or city state was a vital part to the development and change of politics and fundamental ideology . Each polis had different laws from Athens to Sparta and each Polis had different aspects that made them unique and distinguished them from each other. Sparta was a very exclusive and rigid polis with an emphasis on battle, blood,…

answer is that the Greeks were one of the first civilizations to utilize smarter and more successful citizens amongst their societies, in their armies. This was done through the creation of the hoplite armies. Hoplite armies have been referred to as the “military backbone of ancient Greek city-states.” Hoplites were often “wealthier,” and more physically fit than previous citizens used as soldiers. They consisted primarily of the middle class people, and they “bore the financial ability to arm…

Sparta was a society in Ancient Greece that focused on loyalty to the state and the military. However, Spartan society focused too much on warfare and not enough on education and bettering of all of its citizens and that is what led to the decline of the Spartans. The focus of on social roles, and lack of economy also led to Sparta’s demise, as well as their vastly different social views. Social structures were standards in most ancient societies. In Sparta, there were three main social groups.…

In this text I will prove foreign, non-Western influences changed the course of history in Western Civilization. During the Western Civilization many groups and persons changed the way of living in the civilization. At first, during the 13th century CE, the people that stayed the longest were the Phoenicians from Lebanon. They were living in cities to make trades and setup trade colonies around the Mediterranean. They created a system of writing of 22 symbols that passed the torch from their era…

You all know the story of the Alamo right, well there is a similar story; this story is much more important because the outcome may well have changed the fate of Europe, and possibly America. This is the story of Leonidas, one of the greatest kings of Sparta; and the battle of Thermopylae, where this noble king made a brave sacrifice. The brave King of Sparta, Leonidas, one of the greatest Greek Kings of all time, strong and wise as a leader and a fighter, sacrificed himself, along with his 300…

brought the decline of the hoplite warfare and an end to its ethos. The definition of autonomia changed following the beginning of the fourth century B.C.E. The role of the citizens no longer encapsulated the wellbeing of the community, but rather their wellbeing through the community. The question of the day became “what can my polis do for me?”. Xenophon’s entire work depicts continuously without respite, but it also describes the war that raged inside each polis. The hoplite culture…

The most well known formation was developed by the Greeks and was called the Hoplite Phalanx. This was a formation where they would lock their shields together and project their spears over the shields. This would build a shield wall and the group of soldiers would point their spears toward the enemy which would act as a barrier to…

In the following essay I will explain how the monarchy, the aristocracy and the democracy existed in the antique Greece. It will also include how the military was managed according to the leading system they had. Throughout my research I used Miklos Szaray`s Tortenelem 1, Nemzeti Tankonykiado, 2003 book as a primary source because this specific use of English that our textbook has, confused me. For the start, the democratic system has been used by the Athenians during the antique age. Athens’s…