@BretDevereaux - Hi! Your series on Sparta is fantastic. Hope you’re receptive to one small comment RE: https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vi-spartan-battle …. I have fought with an aspis before. I found the grip is *excellent* for individual combat outside the phalanx. 1/3
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And, certainly, some open-order fighters - ekdromoi, or shipboard marines - used the aspis during the Classical period. But I don't think it is an accident that loose-order specialists - peltasts, thureophoroi - used different shields with different grips.
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The second century in particular, I think, speaks to the degree to which - once exposed - the Greeks were quite receptive to the idea of equipping a *lot* of men with center-grip Gallic style shields (=thureos). Thureophoroi are *everywhere* in late-3/early-2century BC Greece
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