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Modern Greek military ranks are based on Ancient Greek and Byzantine ... "order", or "class", and in modern Greek is a unit equivalent to a battalion in other ...
Military ranks of ancient Macedon (9 P) S. ... Pages in category "Military ranks of ancient Greece" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Military ranks of ancient Greece (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Ancient Greek military terminology" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
Military ranks of ancient Greece (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Military ranks of Greece" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The rank and file of the military in most of the Greek city states was composed of ordinary citizens. Heavily armed foot soldiers were called hoplitès or hoplites and a hoplomachos was a drill or weapons instructor. Once Athens became a naval power, the top generals of the land armies had authority over the naval fleets as well.
Military ranks of ancient Greece (2 C, 13 P) P. Proxenoi (15 P) R. Ancient Greek religious titles (1 C, 7 P) S. Sibyls (1 C, 17 P) Somatophylakes (1 C, 17 P)
The word taxiarch (Greek: ταξίαρχος, romanized: taxiarchos (masculine); ταξιάρχη, taxiarchē (feminine)) is used in the Greek language to mean "brigadier". The term derives from táxis 'order', in military context meaning 'an ordered formation'. In turn, the rank has given rise to the Greek term for brigade, taxiarchia.
The ancient Greek city-states developed a military formation called the phalanx, which were rows of shoulder-to-shoulder hoplites. The Hoplites would lock their shields together, and the first few ranks of soldiers would project their spears out over the first rank of shields.