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    Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience

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      INDICES

      I General Index

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      Acarnania 59, 227

      Achaea 210

      Achilles 22, 35, 41–2, 109, 112, 121, 240;

      ethos 123, 125, 128, 137–9, 140, 153–4;

      shield 211;

      "painter" 22

      advance, see charge

      Aegina 95, 102, 116

      Aegospotami 116, 145

      Aelian 88, 99

      Aeneas Tacticus 138, 164, 181, 186– 7, 195–6

      Aeschines 163

      Aeschylus 87, 91, 96, 101, 112–13, 132, 134, 205, 214, 238, 240, 243

      Aetolia 5, 22, 81, 106, 178, 196, 244

      Agesilaus 8, 20, 30, 33, 102, 137, 142, 145–6, 148, 151, 166, 181, 227

      Agesipolis 39

      Agis 104, 118, 148, 150, 246

      agriculture 4–6;

      see also farmers

      Alcaeus 106, 129, 130, 229, 236

      Alcibiades 115, 138, 141, 149

      alcohol, in battle 18, 90, 113, 240

      Alypetus 20

      Alexander, of Macedon 52, 113, 125, 138, 141, 153, 192, 200, 202, 223, 247;

      of Pherae 52, 146

      Amazons 25–6, 200

      Ambracia 45, 54–5

      Amphiaraos 212

      Amphipolis 98, 117–18, 168

      Amphitryon 72, 96

      Anakeion 114

      Anaxibus 107, 151

      Andocides 114

      annihilation, of armies 95–6

      Antalcidas 27

      Antigone 42

      Antiochus 35

      Apollo 108, 202, 210–11, 231, 240, 244–6

      Arcadia 33, 50–1, 214

      archers, see missile-troops

      Archidamus 50, 61, 90, 92, 114, 120, 168, 191, 196

      Archilochus 17–18, 96, 98, 102, 129– 30, 132, 144

      Ares 205, 209, 211, 215, 229

      Arexion 206

      Arginusae 44–5, 116, 226

      Argos, Argives 42–3, 54–5, 61, 96, 100–1, 102, 105, 113, 140, 148, 185, 203, 215, 242, 243

      Aristides 146

      aristocrats, in battle 84, 105–6, 122– 3, 128–30, 136, 142, 158, 163

      Aristodemus 80, 95, 103, 107, 143

      Aristophanes 7, 111, 144, 211, 229

      Aristotle 28, 112–13, 114, 133, 138, 158

      arms and armor, see panoply, body-armor, shield, helmet

      Arrian 88, 99, 110, 200, 223

      arrows, see missile-weapons

      Artemis 91, 209–11, 214

      artillery 28, 184, 191–2, 196;

      see also missile-weapons

      Asclepiodotus 82, 88, 167

      Asia 21, 25, 32–3, 217

      Assinarus 100

      Athena 198, 200, 211

      Athenaeus 107

      Athens, Athenians, military of 5, 8, 16, 27, 29, 46, 49, 62, 89, 9
    4, 103, 113, 123, 131, 139–40, 143, 209, 229, 244;

      in Aetolia, 178;

      civil strife 215,

      see also Thirty Tyrants;

      Dipylon Gate 184;

      fortifications 180, 190–8;

      light-armed troops, 189;

      mines 183;

      Peloponnesian War 22, 52, 87, 97–8, 114–15, 137–40, 193, 196, 237;

      Persian War 43, 216;

      religion and customs 45, 60, 143, 210–11, 242;

      tribes 162

      attendants, for hoplites 58, 89, 140, 179, 193

      Attica 24, 59, 134, 215

      ax 25, 36

      see also axine, pelekus, sagaris (Index II)

      Bacchylides 18, 110–14

      battering-ram 184–5

      "Battle of Champions" 107, 242

      blood, in battle 33, 38, 51, 52, 100, 228;

      in battlefield animal sacrifice 201, 203–5, 212–13, 217, 239, 243

      bloodlust 101

      body-armor 17, 32, 53, 65–6, 68, 79, 95, 110, 121–2, 181, 195, 229, 236;

      penetration of 21, 24, 73, 93;

      weight of 67, 75, 181

      body strength 99, 253

      Boeotia 20, 30, 47–8, 49, 52, 98, 101, 113–14, 133, 196, 215

      borders 202–3

      bow 17, 25, 83, 91;

      see missile-weapons

      Brasidas 33, 89, 95, 98, 138, 146, 168

      bronze, as weapons material 23–4, 71, 75, 81, 91, 110, 236

      burial 42–4, 45–66, 139;

      see also funerals

      Caesar, Julius 24, 128

      Calibrates 21

      Callimachus 134, 135–6, 149

      Callinus 92, 129

      Cambyses 102, 145

      Cannae 101

      carrion 51–2

      carts 175

      Carystus 97

      Castor 21, 90

      casualties 21, 34, 44–5, 100, 244, 254;

      percentages of 101, 109;

      of generals 140–7, 167;

      see also burial, corpses, wounds

      casualty-lists 42, 50–2, 57–8, 60–1, 143

      cavalry 101, 105, 114, 117, 122, 141– 2, 144, 152;

      Athenian 160–2;

      Persian 207;

      see also horse

      Cerameicus 43, 60

      Chabrias 30, 44, 89, 146

      Chaeronea 39, 43–4, 102–3, 107, 136, 143, 151, 169, 191

      Chalcis 18, 133

      Chalybes 27

      Chares 146

      charge, of hoplite armies 37, 78, 82, 90–1, 93, 115, 104, 116, 169, 216

      Chigi vase 18, 20, 31, 32, 36, 92, 108, 130

      Chios 146

      chiton 161;

      see also tunic

      Cimon 59, 136–7, 139, 244

      classical scholarship 8–9, 11, 255

      Clearchus 141, 144, 170

      Cleisthenes 132–3, 135, 151, 162;

      of Sicyon 133

      Cleombrotus 38, 90, 94, 98, 104, 146, 148–9

      Cleomenes 151, 203, 231

      Cleon 33, 98, 105, 117–18, 137, 144, 168

      Cleophon 106

      Cnidus 226

      Cnossus 229

      coffin 46

      confusion 94–5, 140;

      see also panic

      Corcyra 5;

      see also Corfu

      Corfu 104

      Corinth 18, 26, 50, 66, 97, 100, 102, 113, 132, 196, 242, 245–6;

      helmet 75;

      war 100

      Coroneia, battle of 394 BC 4, 38, 94, 96–7, 102, 103, 109, 118, 148

      corpses 33, 38–62, 73, 83, 102–3, 140, 228, 240–2;

      desecration of 41, 53;

      fight over 97, 100;

      number of 55–6;

      viewing of 59, 61, 100–1, 140

      corselett, see body-armor

      coup de grace 27, 73

      courage 138–9,

      see also andreia, arete, aristeia (Index II)

      cowardice 20, 93–4, 95, 99, 106, 138, 242;

      see also panic

      crests 75, 96, 140–1, 230, 235–6;

      see also helmet

      Crete 36, 144, 229, 239

      Crimisus 88

      Croesus 41

      Croton 238

      cult, see rituals

      Cunaxa 21, 31, 91, 141, 153, 205

      Cynoscephelae 39, 98, 109, 142, 146

      Cyprus 111

      Cypselus 133

      Cyrus 28, 99, 107, 115, 124, 131, 141, 153, 169, 206

      dance 30;

      see also hoplomachia (Index II)

      Daphaenus 149

      Darius I 162;

      III 145

      Dark Ages 6, 47, 64–5, 67, 70, 75, 83

      dead, see corpses, burial, rot, rigor mortis

      decapitation 27, 52, 230

      Delbrück, Hans 9, 155

      Delian League 137

      Delium 48, 52, 58, 90, 96, 98, 100–1, 103, 105, 118, 140, 149

      Delphi 45, 163, 229, 244–9

      Demades 113

      Demaratus 103

      deme 89

      Demeter 243

      Demetrius 192, 229

      Demosthenes, general 81, 143, 235;

      orator 95, 113

      depth, of phalanx, see phalanx

      desertion 135

      Derklylidas 207

      Dieneces 88

      Diodorus 49, 83, 87, 99, 116, 168, 169

      Dion 27, 115, 141

      Dionysius I 138, 141, 195

      Dionysus 113, 216

      Dioscuri 244

      discipline 16, 138;

      see also training

      Dodona 244, 247

      dog-tags 54–8, 62;

      see also skytalis (Index II)

      Draco 161

      Dracontius 27

      Drilae 143

      drill 28–32, 103–4, 167;

      see also training

      drinking-water 176–7;

      see also sun in battle

      dust 91, 110

      Edward Clarke's Road 175

      Egypt 87, 102, 146, 151, 190

      Eion 139

      Elateia 113, 191

      Eleusis 114

      Elis 245–6

      endurance 63, 78

      Enodia 208

      Epameinondas 8, 33, 39, 59, 61, 95, 97, 98, 100, 104, 109, 118, 143, 145, 149, 156–7, 167, 237

      ephebes 28, 208, 210–11, 230, 235

      Ephorus 36, 133, 161, 168

      Epipolae 55, 94, 242

      Epirus 121, 243

      Epistades 113

      Eretria 18, 146

      Eros 107, 141, 224

      Eteocles 33–4, 94, 181, 208, 238–9, 240

      Euboea 17, 48

      Eudamidas 120

      Eumenes 34

      Eupolis 105

      Euripides 34–5, 58–9, 72, 83, 87–9, 91, 94–5, 96, 99, 108, 116, 131, 144, 169, 181–3, 197, 208–9, 212– 13, 215

      Eurytus 80, 107

      exchange, of dead 46, 51–4

      execution 151

      farmers, as soldiers 4–5, 28, 58, 77, 177, 197, 248

      fear 105, 135;

      see also cowardice, Phobos, panic, flight

      flanks 98;

      see also phalanx

      flight 31, 34, 91, 93, 95, 99, 100, 104, 242

      flute-playing 19, 30;

      at Sparta 119, 160, 198, 240

      fortifications 180–8

      Frederick the Great 122

      friends, in battle 107;

      see also kin

      front-rank, of phalanx 18, 31, 35, 71–2, 90, 93, 94, 95–7, 100, 107, 124, 132–3, 140, 147–9, 151–2, 169, 240;

      see also promacboi, prostatai (Index II)

      frontier 113;

      see also borders

      funerals 40–2, 44–5;

      see also burial

      gaps, in battle-line 100, 240

      Gaugamela 145

      Gelon 163

      general 4, 6, 32–3, 57–9, 90–1, 102, 104, 116, 120, 112–70, 192, 212, 227;

      see under individual generals

      Geometric pottery 80, 83;

      see also C
    higi vase

      gladiators 82

      gods, see under individual deities

      Gorgias 118

      Gorgopas 120

      Granicus 143–5, 166

      greaves 64–5, 76–8, 115

      hair, length of 62

      halbert 24

      Haliartus 48, 153

      hands, use of in battle 99;

      see es cheiras (Index II)

      Hecate 208

      Hector 42–3, 99, 128–9, 140, 235, 240

      Hecuba 99

      helmet 15, 17, 65–6, 76, 95–6, 110, 115, 118, 140–1, 217, 230, 243–4, 246;

      penetration of 25;

      types 37, 53, 140–1;

      weight 67, 78;

      see also body-armor, crests

      Helots 29

      Hephaestus 141

      Hera 208, 217, 224

      Heracleia 121, 123, 128

      Heracleitus 41, 151

      Heracles 20, 41, 60, 209, 215, 237

      heralds 47, 54–5, 91, 116

      Herippidas 148

      Herodotus 9, 32, 43, 58, 80, 88, 97, 99, 100, 102–3, 108, 113, 133–5, 149, 203, 207, 216, 220

      Hippagretas 96

      Hippocrates 98, 105

      Homer, as source for hoplite battle 15, 22, 24–5, 32–3, 35, 38, 41, 47, 52, 66, 80, 81–4, 106, 112–13, 122–3, 125, 130, 132–3, 138, 157– 8, 230

      homosexuality 107;

      see also friends, kin, Sacred Band

      hoplite, as term 81, dance 9, 119;

      decline of 255;

      ethos of 106, 122– 3, 138, 150, 164, 179–80;

      reform 65–6, 77, 80–1, 84, 130–1, 158–9;

      size of 81;

      snobbery of 6;

      veterans 255

      horse 84, 113, 115, 141–2, 152, 160, 205;

      see also cavalry

      human sacrifice 213–17, 226

      Hyperides 139

      Hysiae 42

      Ilissos River 210

      individual combat 67–8, 74, 80–2, 84, 88, 92, 95, 122, 129–30, 153, 158, 240;

      see also monomachia (Index II)

      Iphicrates 22, 31, 90, 117, 121, 139

      Iphigeneia 214, 225

      iron 23–4, 64

      Isidas 143

      Isocrates 137

      Issus 145

      Isthmia 245–6

      Jason, of Pherae 138

      javelin 71, 76;

      see also missile-weapons

      Josephus 192

      Keegan, John 124–5, 142, 152, 157

      kin 38, 51, 56–7, 108, 126–7, 145, 232, 240

      kings, in battle;

      Spartan 47, 96, 98, 108, 117, 132–3, 145–6, 147–9, 150–1, 169, 222, 230;

      Homeric 125–9;

      Macedonian 155, 191;

      Persian 167, 216

      Kromayer, Johannes 9

      Lacedaemonians, see Sparta

      Laches 29, 34–5

      Laconia 189

      ladders 181–2

      Lamachus 144, 146

      Lamian War 139

      Latin literature 23, 26, 128;

     


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