Each shield was circular and convex ... Sparta’s battle methods were similar to those employed elsewhere in the Greek-speaking world. Hoplite warriors formed phalanxes, which advanced in ...

A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself ... their shields - they believed only a coward would drop his shield and run away. Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest warships ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal ... With an eight-foot long spear, a short sword, and a bronze-covered shield, the total weight of their equipment was therefore in the region of ...

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess ... He now carried her brightly polished shield in one hand and his sword in the other. He knew that he must be getting close to Medusa’s cave.

A copy of Themistocles' order to evacuate Athens was discovered on stone in the back of a Greek coffee house ... his riding equipment for the shield of a hoplite, showing that he had chosen ...