hoplite

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• Furthermore, the success of hoplite citizen-soldiers greatly reinforced the socioeconomic conditions that helped to bring hoplites into being.

  Academic text (1995)

• Yet it is impossible to imagine Athenian democracy without its hoplite component.

  Academic text (1995)

• The hoplite group could have defined a new and larger status group in society, but not a community of citizens.

  Academic text (1995)

• When one understands the nature of hoplite warfare, these difficulties disappear.

  Academic text (1995)

• In archaic Greece, the hoplite phalanx served a multitude of ends, and best served those societies that had more ends to serve.

  Academic text (1995)

• These factors, operating in a context of socioeconomic upheaval, created Athens as the polis of hoplite democracy.

  Academic text (1995)

• Here I need only assert that the character of Athenian democracy was greatly shaped by the hoplite character of its military and its importance to the survival of the polis.

  Academic text (1995)

• At the same time, Athenian success at hoplite warfare enabled the polis to raise its horizons far beyond Attica once it achieved political stability.

  Academic text (1995)

• Hoplites, thus understood, created a special sort of democracy in post-Kleisthenic and pre-imperial Athens; the term I use to refer to it is hoplite democracy, with nearly equal weight given to the military structure of the polis and to its increasingly democratic decision-making processes.

  Academic text (1995)

• The strategies developed during the hoplite era greatly influenced military tactics in ancient Greece.

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