... as the elite. The Spartan army emerged as a highly disciplined and closely co-coordinated battle army.1 Sparta was by far the most powerful and important state in Greece at the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War and she maintained this position for more than a quarter of a century, until her defeat at the battle of Leuctura in 371.2 Sparta's" armies were fearless and ... can credited to the phalanx and the hoplite. It is probably true to say that the Spartan heavy-armed hoplite was the most formidable soldier of the ancient world1. The Pericles and the Athenians knew this and never ris...

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