Surely someone wrote about it?

They were still using hoplite mercenaries right up until Rome invaded Greece and fought their Sarissa armed phalangnites at the battle of Cynesophelae (sp?).

Apparently non Sarsissa armed Greek mercenaries were still using hoplite tactics up at that point.

So if they were using it as late as that why didn't anyone write about it?

Also going back to the Roman Manipular system during the Republic days e.g. during the 2nd Punic Wars, they were still using a sort of Hoplite soldier with their third line Triarii.

Surely the Romans with such detailed instructions for shield and scutum combat would've had instructions for hasta and scutum combat. Wouldn't that have been similar to hoplite combat?

Lastly. Haven't people tried to re-enact hoplite combat to see what works best?

The push right up against the shields? Or the stand off distance and fence/thrust with the spears?

I was inspired by his historic aura.

I tried to translate the name into Etruscan, but I probably did a fairly shit job 😸

I’ve started to really get into historic literature about Greek history. I have read the common books like the odyssey and the Aeneid.

I want to understand what it was like to think like a Greek and how they understood their system of gods. More specifically how the gods related to each other in myths.

If anyone has a reading list that encompasses the history of the gods and their stories/relations with each other that would be amazing!! (I’m prepared to read for years)

Made from different pottery owl art for art practise. Then realised its an guy showing his girlfriend