Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray, your weekly fix of 10 minutes of me ranting about some aspect of ancient warfare and me attempting to answer a question sent in by you, the viewer, listener or reader.

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Now, what we've got is a question today.

I think from today, Tomic, 1993. I'm assuming

that's how we say that. Hi, Mary, do we know from historical sources, historical sources,

when the Greek hoplight ceased to exist? Thanks. Okay, go foo-hoo-hoo, the Greek hoplight. Now, it's controversy everywhere I turn

when you're talking about the Greek hoplight. There was a traditional view of the emergence

of the hoplight based on the Argyve shield in the 7th century BC and the classic hoplight

that we see on pottery in Greece, that's now become

a controversy that in fact the classical hoplight is a much later evolution of Greek

warfare and that the main phalanx style hoplites are really fifth century bc only not earlier i don't really agree

with that but that's okay that's that's a controversy and it's funny whenever there's a new

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