Hollow Lakedaimon

Yes, I have been away for a long time.  Luckily I have good reason.  I had to focus on the six-legged Myrmidons so as to finish my Ph. D. th...

Every now and then I get a comment that I feel would be better answered as a post so that any others with a similar question can easily find...

I've just written a long article on the mechanics of hoplite battle for the Marathon Special issue of Ancient Warfare magazine ( http://...

A few months back, I promised a review of Adam Schwartz's "Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic an...

In an earlier post, I wrote that hoplites in the crowd of othismos could strike with short swords over their shields into the necks of their...

There is a section of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia that is often invoked as evidence against the occurrence of Othismos in hoplite combat and to de...

Recently, a friend of mine, Helena Schrader, who has written many novels set in ancient Sparta with an eye towards dispelling much of the mi...