It came in three layers with the center made of thick wood (think of a cutting board) with bronze on the outside facing the enemy and leather on the inside.

15 lbs.), concave shield was carried by a Greek hoplite warrior in battle. A Spartan could lose his helmet or breastplate with impunity but would be disgraced if he threw away his shield because, “You wear the armor for your own protection but you carry your shield for the protection of the entire line.” The large (usually at least 36” in diameter), round, heavy (approx. Shield (hoplon or aspis) – The hoplite’s most important piece of equipment. Spartans were taught never to let their weapons out of arms length distance even when heeding the call of nature or when sleeping and to carry your spear at all times when on campaign. Panoply - The hoplite’s equipment collection of iron weapons and bronze armor, which included his shield, spear, helmet, sword, breastplate and greaves among other pieces. When asked why Sparta had no walls around her borders for protection the reply given was, “The borders of our frontiers are protected by the tips of our warriors’ spears.” The depth of the phalanx formation varied depending on the needs, terrain, enemy, etc. Hoplites stood shoulder-to-shoulder with overlapping shields and spears thrusting towards the enemy. Phalanx – The ancient world’s ultimate weapon of war for centuries developed by the Greeks and perfected by the Spartans. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Hoplite - A heavily armored Greek infantryman whose main weapons were the round hoplon shield (perhaps where the name came from) and the long 6-9 foot thrusting spear. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

Spiked hoplite shield