Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... With an eight-foot long spear, a short sword, and a bronze-covered shield, the total weight of their ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is ... They lined up in ranks and locked their shields together with just their spears pointing over the top. This formation was known ...

To sum up, Billows sees a literate, Hoplite, democratic culture developed in the polis, where a mass audience would participate in the “high culture” we associate with the Ancient Greece of Plato, ...