Hollow Lakedaimon

Change has come to Hollow Lakedaimon. You will note that we are no longer the online syssition, we have laconized to the online Phitidion. ...

The biggest objections to othismos dissapear when you accept my definition of othismos only occuring at crowd-like densities and understand ...

As you can tell by now, I am an advocate of a literal pushing othismos. Because of this I am frustrated by some elements of the pro-othismo...

I happened upon an image of othismos as I describe it in my crowd-othismos model: men packed tight belly to back, not pushing side-on. This ...

I recently stumbled upon this band on youtube and have to support anyone who sings about Sparta.

I am often asked how and why men enter the close-packed formation needed to conduct the othsimos as I define it. Here is a little video by ...

I recently re-read a paper on Greek swordsmanship: “Footwork in Ancient Greek Swordsmanship” Brian F. Cook, Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol...