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Hoplites also carried a sword, mostly a short sword called a xiphos, but later also longer and heavier types. The short sword was a secondary weapon, used if or when their spears were broken or lost, or if the phalanx broke rank.
Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC. The hoplitodromos or hoplitodromia (Greek: ὁπλιτόδρομος, ὁπλιτοδρομία, English translation: "race of the hoplites") was an ancient foot race, part of the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games.
In the manner of neighboring city-states, the backbone of the Athenian military on land was the Hoplite. [1] Accompanying every Hoplite was a lightly armed attendant, either a poor citizen who could not afford a regular suit of armor (panoplia), or possibly a trusted slave.
The Battle of Lechaeum (391 BC) was fought between the Athenians and the Spartans during the Corinthian War; it ended in an Athenian victory.During the battle, the Athenian general Iphicrates took advantage of the situation when a Spartan hoplite regiment operating near Corinth was marching through open terrain without the protection of any missile throwing troops.
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The representation of hoplites in art show historians how the Greeks used this formation in battle as well as how the soldiers were dressed and what their armor looked like. The hoplite formation is shown in different styles of pottery such as white ground and black-figure and also on many different types of pottery such an olpe , krater ...
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