Hollow Lakedaimon

One of the most common objections to my model of the othismos phase of hoplite combat as essentially two crowds moving against each other st...

If you've read the paper below then you already know this, but I will summarize the key points and contrast them with the other two alte...

To date there has been no hoplite reenactment groups with enough men and the will to go at it full speed to properly recreate phalanx on pha...

Those who support a literal interpretation of the othismos as a pushing match have pointed out that the hollow design of the shield allows t...

The Aspis: Surviving Hoplite Battle. Agiselaos II of Sparta stood victorious on the battlefield of Koronea in 394 B.C. when he learned that ...

This is the article I wrote for Ancient Warfare magazine that spawned this blog, the issue is now out of print so I have decided to link to ...

Let's review a bit. The aspis was a dome shaped shield. Domes are supremely suited to transferring force applied to their face around...