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Paintings of Ancient Macedonian soldiers, arms, and armaments, from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki in Greece, 4th century BC. The primary weapon that was used by Greek troops was a two-to-three meter spear with a leaf-shaped blade at one end and a short spike at the other known as the doru. The spearhead was usually made of bronze ...
This unit, known as the Hypaspistai, or hypaspists, was probably armed in the hoplite manner, with a large concave shield and a spear , in addition to spolas or linothorax body-armor, hoplite's helmet, greaves and a xiphos or kopis sword (though their equipment was likely more ornate than main-line soldiers).
Modern Greek military ranks are based on Ancient Greek and Byzantine terminology. In the army and air force, these names are often based on the unit or post that a holder of each rank usual commands.
The hoplite was an infantryman, the central element of warfare in Ancient Greece. The word hoplite (Greek ὁπλίτης, hoplitēs) derives from hoplon (ὅπλον, plural hopla, ὅπλα) meaning the arms carried by a hoplite [1] Hoplites were the citizen-soldiers of the Ancient Greek City-states (except Spartans who were professional ...
Fresco of an ancient Macedonian soldier wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield; 3rd century BC The thyreophoroi or thureophoroi ( Greek : θυρεοφόροι ; sg. : thureophoros / thyreophoros , θυρεοφόρος) [ 1 ] were a type of infantry soldier , common in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, who carried a large oval shield ...
The campaigns of Attarsiya represent the earliest recorded Mycenaean Greek military activity in Anatolia. [46] Around 1250 BC, mainland Greece was shaken by a wave of destructions whose cause is unknown. [47] These incidents appear to have triggered a massive strengthening and expansion of fortifications in various sites. [48]
Macedonian battle formation with psiloi at the fore, courtesy of The Department of History, United States Military Academy. In Ancient Greek armies, the psiloi (Ancient Greek ψιλοί, singular ψιλός, psilos, literally "bare, stripped") [1] were the light infantry who usually acted as skirmishers and missile troops, and who were distinguished from the armored hoplitai (heavy infantry ...
The Argyraspides (Ancient Greek: Ἀργυράσπιδες, lit. 'Silver Shields') were elite Macedonian soldiers who carried silver-plated shields, hence their name. The original unit were hypaspists serving in the army of Alexander the Great.