Heavy Infantry-A Type that includes hoplites and hypaspists. |
The following Spring and Summer, the main allied Greek army, headed by 10,000 Spartan hoplites, routed the Persian army at Palatea, and its navy at Salamis. |
After the Theban refusal to sign the peace agreement of 371, Cleombrotus, who was in Phocis with about 10,000 Spartan and allied hoplites and 1,000 cavalry, was ordered to invade Boeotia and attack Thebes. |
These hoplites is declined in alternatives thickness, ornamentation, of very variable sizes. |
The opposite appearing specimen of hoplites presents an anomaly on last rolling up. |
They were armed with the sarissa, a long spear but at 13 feet actually shorter than the hasta used by Greek hoplites, which was over 16 feet long. |