| Modern combat may be less strenuous than it was in the age of the heavily-armored Greek hoplite, but it is still physically punishing. |
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| He next persuaded Athens to send him with a large hoplite force to help Sparta against the helots, now in revolt. |
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| Scabbards can be seen from the days of the Greek hoplite, worn suspended at the waist. |
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| The Sakonides cup, discussed above, thus provides an example in which the athletic lion-fighter contrasts with the hoplite. |
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| The hoplite was protected by a helmet, a shield, and a breastplate, with leg protection in the form of greaves. |
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| By the 330s, ephebes received a full year of training in hoplite fighting, archery, javelin-throwing, and catapult-firing, followed by a year of patrol duty. |
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| In the early Classical period, a man with as little as twelve acres under cultivation could be expected to own the aspis and serve as a hoplite. |
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| The 7th century, by contrast, had witnessed rapid innovations, such as the introduction of the hoplite and the trireme, which still were the basic instruments of war in the 5th. |
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| The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end. |
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| However, as armies became better trained and more professional, the all-encompassing, hell-for-leather, gemme-outta-here bug-out that was part and parcel of Greek hoplite warfare had been somewhat ameliorated. |
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| Out of combat, a Greek hoplite would wear the helmet tipped upward for comfort. |
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| Whether or not Peisistratus climbed to power with hoplite help, he surely strengthened Athens militarily in a way that must have involved hoplites. |
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| In the second place, it is discouraging for the hoplite theory that there is so little support for it in the best-attested case, that of Cypselid Corinth. |
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| Samian democrats learned of the conspiracy and notified four prominent Athenians: the generals Leon and Diomedon, the trierarch Thrasybulus, and Thrasyllus, at that time a hoplite in the ranks. |
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| Under the monarchy, the hoplite armies were led by the kings of Rome. |
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