Boston: T. Bedlington and C. Ewer. Hans van Wees. The hoplon shield was assembled in three layers: the center layer was made of thick wood, the outside layer facing the enemy was made of bronze, and leather comprised the inside of the shield. The parenthetical remark drips with sarcasm—Gomme italicized the word push. Developed by Hans Van Wees, the Extended Gradualist theory is the most lengthy of the three popular transition theories. As Adrian Goldsworthy points out, “references in our sources to the great noise when battle was joined cannot be used to prove that the two phalanxes literally crashed together.”51 Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 film Troy gives a realistic impression of the charge. Cawkwell, George L. 1989. The prebattle paean served multiple functions. More about bows and arrows. 1. “Techniken zur Herstellung der Einzelteile (Exkurs zum Schild Nr. Note, too, that the Lakedaimonians’ use of pipers was exceptional, was worthy of remark: Thucydides 5.70, Athenaios Deipnosophistai 14.624D; Pausanias 3.17.5; Polyainos Stratagems 1.10. “The Nature of Hoplite Battle.” Classical Antiquity 4: 50–61, trans. An overarm motion would allow more effective combination of the aspis and doru if the shield wall had broken down, while the underarm motion would be more effective when the shield had to be interlocked with those of one's neighbours in the battle-line. Years ago, scholars did not take ōthismós to mean something like a rugby scrum on steroids. The Phalanx . 2004. 77. Some other evidence of a transitional period lies within the text of Spartan poet Tyrtaios, who wrote, "…will they draw back for the pounding [of the missiles, no,] despite the battery of great hurl-stones, the helmets shall abide the rattle [of war unbowed]". 2006. 39:375–89. How did the battle begin? [25] At no point in other texts does Tyrtaios discuss missiles or rocks, making another case for a transitional period in which hoplite warriors had some ranged capabilities. [22] The large amounts of hoplite armour needed to then be distributed to the populations of Greek citizens only increased the time for the phalanx to be implemented. The formation discouraged the soldiers from acting alone, for this would compromise the formation and minimize its strengths. Berkeley: University of California Press. No. 1839. First of all I suppose we are talking about the hoplite of the classical age. “Battle: (A) land battles.” In The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, 2 vols., ed. Pritchett, W. K. 1971–91. 39. Hoplites usually wore greaves, vambraces, and a chest-plate. Reconstructors have shown just how light a porpax aspis could be. Lazenby, John F. 1991. Hanson 2000: 68–69, 152–59, 171–84, 1999: 262; Anderson 1970: 175–76, 1984; Cart-ledge 1977: 15–16. 53. Each hoplite provided his own equipment. Such armies could not match the Persians. In 1909 he suggested in a page or two that the phalanx developed gradually.21 Only after the development of the close-order formation had made considerable progress did Greeks adopt the porpaxshield, which Helbig pronounced suitable only for fighting in close ranks. A Boeotian shield appears to have two cut-out arcs, one on each longer side, with the handgrip on a shorter side. Polybios 18.30.5–11. Everyone could benefit from walking in rhythm together.31. Though the Italian tribes, namely the socii fighting with the Romans, later adopted the new Roman fighting style, some continued to fight as hoplites. From a strictly literary point of view, the hoplite phalanx did not exist until the fourth century, when Xenophon refers to “the phalanx of hoplites” (Anabasis 6.5.27).13 The word “phalanx” apparently derives from a root meaning “log.” Neither Herodotus nor Thucydides uses it in a military context, and with a single exception, the Archaic poets use it only in the plural, phalanges, with one exception in the Iliad.14 The word “hoplite,” which derives from hopla (military equipment), first occurs in the fifth century as an adjective in poetry; it becomes common as a noun in the second half of the century, first in Herodotus, then in Thucydides, Aristophanes, Euripides, and inscriptions.15 When discussing Archaic warfare, we might do well to avoid the expression “hoplite phalanx” and refer simply to phalanges or ranks, without prejudicing the issue of who fought in them. Müller, Karl Otfried. Each man's shield protected the warrior to his left as well as himself - and he was protected a little by the shield of the man to his right. 2009. Besides classical hoplites Hellenistic nations began to field two new types of hoplites, the Thureophoroi and the Thorakitai. Battles were fought on level ground, and hoplites preferred to fight with high terrain on both sides of the phalanx so the formation could not be flanked. Rutherford, Ian. The formation sounds to me like inclusive phalanges, rather than an exclusive hoplite phalanx. Seiterle, G. 1982. 2000. Hans van Wees. These tactics inspired the future king Philip II of Macedon, who was at the time a hostage in Thebes, also inspired the development of new type of infantry, the Macedonian phalanx. Fighting at a distance (Iliad 8.66–67): So long as it was early morning and the sacred daylight increasing, so long the thrown weapons of both took hold, and people fell. This formation was known as a ‘phalanx’. clashed against each other, and the sound grew huge of the fighting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1:195–202. Marshall, S.L.A. The problem is a practical one, a matter of what Delbrück would have called “die Realität der Dinge.” Since modern soldiers do not fight withporpax shields, we have to look at police (who are not using replicas of Greek porpax shields) and reenactors (who are not really trying to kill each other). The revolutionary part of the shield was the grip. The way forward was shown by Miltiades, who armed all the Athenians at Marathon as hoplites and closed with the Persians before their mounted archers could get into position. Mitford clearly has literal pushing in mind, but it is unclear whether he imagines the Greeks in the rear ranks pushing their own men ahead of them. Perhaps yes, but there is good iconographic evidence for a significantly different variation, the oblong “Boeotian” shield found in Archaic vase painting and on coins, in addition to the famous figurine from Dodona, now in Berlin. Other writers, starting with Johannes Kromayer, have argued that the porpax shield could have been used in a mixed fight.26 While it is true that this shield protects the left side better than the right (as any shield carried in the left hand does), a hoplite could get squarely behind the shield by turning sideways with his left foot forward. 63. The Lacedaemonian citizens of Sparta were renowned for their lifelong combat training and almost mythical military prowess, while their greatest adversaries, the Athenians, were exempted from service only after the age of 60. Basic Books. George Rawlinson in 1858–60 was typical: “a fierce struggle” and “a hand-to-hand struggle.”53 Commentators and lexicographers were no different. 390–380 BCE. Munich: C. H. Beck. 74. The exception appears in Homer, Iliad 6.6; Homer uses the plural about twenty times. In battle, opposing phalanxes would exploit this weakness by attempting to overlap the enemy's right flank. Hanson 2000: 162–64; Matthew 2009: 400–406. Cartledge and Hanson estimate the transition took place from 725–675 BC.[23]. 1869–70. During the Greco-Persian Wars (499–448 BC), alliances between groups of cities (whose composition varied over time) fought against the Persians. “Hoplite Weapons and Offensive Arms.” In Hanson 1991:15–37. The military structure created by the Spartans was a rectangular phalanx formation. It was also used as a secondary weapon if the main shaft snapped, or for the rear ranks to finish off fallen opponents as the phalanx advanced over them. And as they chanted and stamped their feet together, they appealed to the god to see them safely through the battle. Munich, 3–41. Arms and Armor of the Greeks. What would happen when one man faced a threat to the right and his left-hand neighbor one to his left? Then the dedications of armor increase sharply about the middle of the century. The vastly outnumbered Greeks held off the Persians for seven days. If battles were shoving matches, more men in the rear would have helped, whether armed or unarmed. Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte, vol. 2001. Hornblower, Simon. The Athenian general Iphicrates developed a new type of armour and arms for his mercenary army, which included light linen armour, smaller shields and longer spears, whilst arming his Peltasts with larger shields, helmets and a longer spear, thus enabling them to defend themselves more easily against hoplites. Pierre Brulé and Jacques Oulhen, Rennes, 1999, 205–17. 61. Of course the ancient Greeks didn’t invent warfare either. New Haven: Yale University Press. Bol, Peter. This is the first clear statement I have found of what became the dominant view: a conflict of hoplites was, in the main, a matter of brawn, of shock of the mass developed instantaneously as a steady thrust with the whole weight of the file behind it—a literal shoving of the enemy off the ground on which he stood.61. 1, Das Alterthum, 3rd ed. These two points of contact eliminated the possibility of the shield swaying to the side after being struck, and as a result soldiers rarely lost their shields. 2011. If hoplites could fight successfully in a mixed force, why did the Greeks eventually exclude archers and other lightly armed fighters from the hoplite ranks? By forming a human wall to provide a powerful defensive armour, the hoplites became much more effective while suffering fewer casualties. Many scholars since have followed his lead.6, I have discussed the equipment item by item in two other publications and do not want to repeat myself needlessly here.7 Drawing on studies of surviving pieces of Greek equipment, especially from the German excavations at Olympia, and on the reconstructions made by reenactment groups in Britain and Australia, I conclude that Hanson’s picture of lumbering hoplites must be moderated. Detienne, Marcel. And what happens next in Iliad 8? Their arms and armour were most effective for fighting in close formation, which led in turn to marching in step, which further augmented cohesion and made the phalanx a tactically formidable formation. [5] Most hoplites were not professional soldiers and often lacked sufficient military training. Essays in Greek History and Literature. They would … stand so close that the edges of their shields actually touched.”28 If they needed to act more aggressively, they would bring in men armed with modified shields, cut almost in half so they weighed less and could be swung around more easily. “The Structure of a Hoplite Shield in the Museo Gregoriano Etrusco.” Bolletino dei Musei E’Gallerie Pontifice 3:5–21. The Hoplites were the ancient Greek infantry. They disagree about whether the phalanx or the shield came first, and they credit different Greek poleis with being first in the field: H. L. Lorimer and Paul Cartledge favor Corinth and Athens, Antony Andrewes Argos, Marcel Detienne Sparta. 72. When was the exclusive hoplite phalanx invented? Polybios uses it to describe a formation allotting each man three feet.36 In fact Polybios uses pyknosis and synaspismos as synonyms to describe this three-foot formation, so whether there was a tighter formation is doubtful. If W. Kendrick Pritchett built the stage set for our understanding of Greek warfare and Anthony Snodgrass provided the costumes, Victor Davis Hanson made the actors come alive. Archaic Greek cavalry was really mounted infantry, men who rode to get into position but dismounted and fought on foot. In addition to being used as a secondary weapon, the sauroter doubled to balance the spear, but not for throwing purposes. The neat blue and red rectangles we draw on battle plans should not seduce us into thinking of untrained Greeks as capable of marching precision. These reforms made wars of attrition possible and greatly increased the number of casualties. 13. The ancient Spartans did not, in fact, fight naked, nor did anyone else in classical Greece. Delbrück must mean that by their reassuring physical presence the rear ranks supported the front ranks and encouraged their advance. The equipment might be passed down in families, as it was expensive to manufacture. Yet as best we can tell, when facing odds greater than 3:2, Greeks did not go out to fight another Greek army. Van Wees, Hans. Delbrück 1975: 53, a translation of the 1920 third edition. Though they mostly fielded Greek citizens or mercenaries, they also armed and drilled local natives as hoplites or rather Macedonian phalanx, like the Machimoi of the Ptolemaic army. It … Let me close with a comment on the “grand hoplite narrative.” I would return to a view close to that articulated by George Grote, who thought that “the gradual rise of the small proprietors and town-artisans” in the seventh and sixth centuries led to heavily armed infantry replacing cavalry and that the Persian threat led to an equally important increase in the number of rowers in new, larger Greek fleets. “Taktikè Technè—the Neglected Element in Classical ‘Hoplite’ Battles.” Ancient Society 41:45–82. But the idea seems impractical for an entire line of men. We see this in the reconstruction to the right. He says: a fair reading of the ancient accounts of hoplite battles suggests that in the case of the Greeks—and perhaps among the Greeks alone—the first charge of men usually smashed right into the enemy line: the key was to achieve an initial shock through collision which literally knocked the enemy back and allowed troops to pour in through the subsequent tears in the line…. It helped them to warm up for the fight. ———. The Hoplite Association in London produces shields made of lime (similar in density to pine) and pine, 0.93 m in diameter, that weigh 6.4 kg. The same shield, unfaced, would weigh only 3.2 kg. But the ones he discusses are among those most frequently cited, and what he says can be applied to the rest. 1989. This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns and often resulted in the campaign season being restricted to one summer. According to Plutarch's Sayings of Spartans, "a man carried a shield for the sake of the whole line".[13]. Leiden: Brill, 183–204. In his view, aristocrats adopted the more expensive equipment first. 3. Since the forwards are only eight of fifteen players on a rugby team, perhaps Grundy might have had in mind a “scrum” of the first two or three lines, not of eight lines or more. Just a low hoplite mercenary officer who after the asasination of greek general klearchos took 10,000 hoplites and defeated tactical persian army,irregulars,bandits,guerrilas,archers,whole nations (kurds)from banbylon to Bosporus.Through plains,mountains rivers fields.Through snow heat desert mountainpeaks. 1996. Krentz 2010a: 45–50, and 2010b: 190–197. “The enemy line was not necessarily an absolutely impenetrable wall of shields.” I agree. Hoplite warfare was in decline. 1950. 217).” In Antike Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig, II. ———. Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, 2 vols. Its effectiveness depended on how well the hoplites could maintain this formation in combat, and how well they could stand their ground, especially when engaged against another phalanx. 1911. However impenetrable the shield wall, it would have been massively outflanked on both wings unless it had overwhelming superiority in numbers. Snyder, Zach, et al. The exact time when hoplite warfare was developed is uncertain, the prevalent theory being that it was established sometime during the 8th or 7th century BC, when the "heroic age was abandoned and a far more disciplined system introduced" and the Argive shield became popular. [21], The Rapid Adaptation model was developed by historians Paul Cartledge and Victor Hanson. ———. Luginbill, Robert D. 1994. But the film is less realistic in having all the leading Greeks slam into the Trojan shields. [26] Peter Krentz argues that "the ideology of hoplitic warfare as a ritualized contest developed not in the 7th century [BC], but only after 480, when non-hoplite arms began to be excluded from the phalanx". ———. The weaknesses of the phalanx formation - attack from the flanks, rear, or when on rough terrain - were sometimes exploited by more wily commanders; however, the formation, albeit with lighter-armed infantry, was still in use through Hellenistic and early Roman times. 1999. Hanson, Victor Davis, ed. In any case, Johannes Kromayer and Georg Veith used the word Massendruck in their 1928 handbook, though they did not amplify what they meant by it.60 They may have meant that the entire front rank or two pushed, or they may have meant that all ranks pushed together. The ranks behind them would support them with their own spears and the mass of their shields gently pushing them, not to force them into the enemy formation but to keep them steady and in place. The typical engagement, prior to the hoplites, involved a less organized charge toward the enemy that usually ended in a fragmented battle. The two lines would close to a short distance to allow effective use of their spears, while the psiloi threw stones and javelins from behind their lines. One of the terms used to describe the close-order formation is ‘with interlocked shields’ (synaspismois). The formation proved successful in defeating the Persians when employed by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC during the First Greco-Persian War. Most soldiers had careers as farmers or workers and returned to these professions after the campaign. Grundy 1948: 1.268. Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500–167 B.C. If the men had previously walked some distance, it helped them regain their order, as they found their places and fell into step with the movements of the dance. The deeper phalanx will defeat the more shallow one, even if on both sides exactly the same number of combatants actually manage to use their weapons.56, By “physical pressure,” Delbrück does not mean shoving, as he makes clear on the next page. “Orthodoxy and Hoplites.” Classical Quarterly n.s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hanson actually quotes from only one ancient account, the second part of the battle of Koroneia (not the initial fight), where Agesilaos “made a furious frontal attack on the Thebans,” according to Xenophon, “and clashing their shields together they pushed, they fought, they killed, they died” (Hellenika 4.3.19 = Agesilaos 2.12). The first edition was published in 1900. It was around 650 BC when the generals inotrduced this new battle formation to their troops in the Archaic period. Peter Bol’s study of the bronze shield fragments found at Olympia suggests that bronze rims, bronze emblems, and bronze facings came into use no earlier than the last third of the seventh century. The history and antiquities of the Doric race, trans. 1999. The old argument that a piper proves hoplites and only hoplites marching in step is invalid. 20. If Keegan is right that in other times and places infantry lines did not crash into each other, we require good evidence for believing that Greeks were different. The Diadochi imported the Greek phalanx to their kingdoms. Pritchett opted for the former. ———. Did the back rows push the men in front? Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Uarau: Verlags-comptoir. 46:27–33. Using an impressive variety of scattered pieces of evidence, he builds a thick description of a hoplite battle. The History of Greece. It was said that he “had an anchor as an emblem on his shield, which never ceased moving and was always in swift motion” (Herodotus 9.74.2). He relies on the Hellenistic tactician Asklepiodotos (4.3), who mentions an offensive formation called pyknosis in which each man had two cubits (about 90 cm) and a defensive formation called synaspismos in which he had only one (about 45 cm). Boardman 1983: 27–33; Franz 2002: 183–84; van Wees 2004: 50–52; Rawlings 2007: 57. First in Die Perserkriege und die Burgunderkriege (1887) and later in his multivolume Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte (3rd ed. The earliest use of the rugby analogy that I have found occurs in G. B. Grundy’s Thucydides and the History of his Age, originally published in 1911: Under ordinary circumstances the hoplite force advanced into battle in a compact mass…. “Alternative Agonies: Hoplite Martial and Combat Experiences beyond the Phalanx.” In War and Violence in Ancient Greece, ed. 1945–56. “The Development of the Hoplite Phalanx: Iconography and Reality in the Seventh Century.” In War and Violence in Classical Greece, ed. A realistic estimate is that a hoplite equipped with a helmet, cuirass, shin guards, shield, spear, and sword carried a total weight of 18–22 kg in the seventh century. Yes, most of the helmets had horsehair plumes or even other decorations, mostly to look intimidating to the enemy. Archers and other lightly armed men fought in the same ranks. A few years ago Simon Hornblower commented that “only an unusually arrogant scholar could claim to know exactly what kind of thing went on in a hoplite battle.”69 I am thankful that he included the words “unusually” and “exactly.” I feel close to certain that hoplites never carried 30+ kg of equipment. 1999. ", This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 10:54. In later periods, linothorax was also used, as it is tougher and cheaper to produce. Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities. The linen was 0.5-centimetre (0.20 in) thick. Early Greek Armour and Weapons. Garrett G. Fagan and Matthew Trundle. There could be multiple such instances of attempts to push, but it seems from the accounts of the ancients that these were perfectly orchestrated and attempted organized en masse. Donlan, Walter, and James Thompson. London. This drastically altered the scale of warfare and the numbers of troops involved. So ōtheō might be meant literally or figuratively in battle narratives. These battles were usually short and required a high degree of discipline. At this stage men were irrational; “adrenaline and the laws of motion made continued movement forward more likely than a sudden stop.” The stop would not have to be sudden. He comments (and I can confirm) that a little practice with a broom handle will show that changing grips is not all that hard. No one was talking about how heavy and unwieldy the porpax shield was—no doubt because, according to the conventional wisdom of Rüstow and Köchly, it weighed only half as much as the earlier great oval shield (6–7.5 kg compared with 14–15 kg).20, Credit for connecting the porpax shield and the phalanx formation goes to Wolf-gang Helbig. If he describes mass shoving, so do they. Mainz: von Zabern, 250–63. ), as Professor Woodhouse supposes. 1985. If a man did without shin guards and relied on his shield for chest protection, he could have carried only 9 kg.8. These existed at times in Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Syracuse, among others. For example, Herodotus refers to Miltiades pushing the Apsinthians away by walling off the neck of the Chersonesos (6.37.1) and speaks of the Greeks pushing the Persians back in reference to Xerxes’ invasion as a whole (8.3.2). To counter the massive numbers of Persians, the Greek general Miltiades ordered the troops to be spread across an unusually wide front, leaving the centre of the … A Commentary on Thucydides, 3 vols. W. J. Renfroe. Hell. The total weight dropped to 14–21 kg. ———. It gave them a sense of solidarity, as they joined in doing something familiar, something they had learned to do as young men. The richer upper-class hoplites typically had a bronze cuirass of either the bell or muscled variety, a bronze helmet with cheekplates, as well as greaves and other armour. Eliot, C.W.J., and Mary Eliot. I confess to making this mistake myself until Kurt Raaflaub kindly corrected me during a conference break. Look at how translators used to render Herodotus. 56. 8. Anyone who doubts that a porpax shield can be manipulated against attacks from various sides and angles should watch Allen Pittman’s YouTube video “Allen teaching Hoplite shield and spear.” Pittman is admittedly a martial arts expert who spent a year training with aporpax shield, but he is also using one that weighs 9 kg without the metal attachments.30, To my mind, therefore, looking at police and reenactors supports the view that warriors could have used porpax shields in a mixed formation. Only a complete madman would have gone into battle in ancient Greece without armor—and that madman would have, of course, been almost instantly killed. The hoplites' most prominent citizens and generals led from the front. 1982. W. G. Moon, 15–36. Hans van Wees. Pritchett 1985: 65–73. Victory was enforced by ransoming the fallen back to the defeated, called the "Custom of the Greeks". They fought in a mixed force that included more lightly equipped troops until the middle of the seventh century, when the number of hoplites was large enough to exclude all other fighters from the ranks, restricting them to supporting roles. The idea that Archaic Greeks fought fairly, following distinctive Greek laws of war, is a mirage based on later Greek claims about the good old days.2 But my job is to discuss the nature of hoplite fighting. Woodhouse labeled this “notion … to put it bluntly, nothing but a fatuous delusion and stark nonsense,” and claimed to understand the real explanation: Hoplites advanced with their shields held straight across their chests, forcing them to slant to the right as they walked. [27] Anagnostis Agelarakis, based on recent archaeo-anthropological discoveries of the earliest monumental polyandrion (communal burial of male warriors) at Paros Island in Greece, unveils a last quarter of the 8th century BC date for a hoplitic phalangeal military organization.[28]. A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? For the shields of the hoplite phalanx to effectively interlock, each man can occupy a space no bigger than half of the diameter of the shield he is carrying.”35 Matthews imagines that Greek phalanxes sometimes lined up in pyknosisformation and sometimes in synaspismos formation, so that hoplite fighting was “much more varied and dynamic in its nature” than scholars have conceived. They included this great oval shield in their 36 kg total estimate discussed above. Light infantry and missile troops took part in the battles but their role was less important. No Boeotian shields have been found, but if they were made of organic materials, perhaps by stretching hides over a wooden frame, they would have disintegrated long before now. Jacqueline Odin and published as “Nature de la bataille hoplitique” in La guerre en Grèce à l’époque classique, ed. In total, such armor was very heavy, weighing up to 34 kg, which certainly made it very difficult for the hoplite to maneuver during the fight. But they all date the invention of the exclusive phalanx to the first quarter of the seventh century. Archaic wars sometimes dragged on and on. Side, with some carrying a spear and a group of hoplites existed before any source... Military history do not see any Way of resolving this dispute through further reading Ancient! 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