![]() ![]() The panoply (all of the stuff) including weapons, clothing, and armor usually ranged from 50-60 pounds. The trade-off of which being that the armor would weigh down the individual soldier, both slowing and tiring them at a faster rate than a much less armored infantry. The Hoplite was a heavy infantry, able to sustain a substantial beating thanks to their level of armor. ![]() Thus there were variations from person to person that depended upon the individuals wealth, personal preferences, and armor that had already been in the family line. The Hoplites of most city-states were a militia, which resulted in the soldiers providing their own armor. The equipment that follows was considered the minimum of what a Hoplite needed to be properly fielded. Though for this study we shall view what was considered the ‘status-quo’ of an average Hoplite’s equipment, the earliest that we see a use of all the equipment would be in the 7th century BC by the last king of the Argine line, King Pheidon. ![]() This leads to an evolution of arms that makes it very hard to pin point the exact equipment used by the Hoplites at any given time. Though this reliance on the equipment at hand to determine the tactics an army would use is nothing new and is still a fact today, along with the tactics themselves determining the equipment used. The word Hoplite is derived from the Greek word “hopla” which literally translates to “stuff”, thus a Hoplite would be a man with “stuff”. The foundation of the Hoplite warrior, along with the tactics that they used, were ultimately a derivation of the equipment they carried. ![]()
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