what are the phlanax are they swords men?what about hoptites?

Answer 1

The phalanx was a Greek heavy infantry formation used from about 800 BC to the conquest of Greece by the Romans in the second century BC. The Greek infantry, called hoplites, formed a square that could quickly face in any of four directions. Each man carried a pike or spear up to 12 feet in length. As the formation advanced, it presented an imposing wall of spear points to its front. Hoplites carried a large shield and wore a bronze helmet, cuirass (breastplate), and greaves. All free men in the Greek city-states trained in the phalanx. The discipline and drill required to make the phalanx work permeated the entire Greek culture. Greek infantry fighting from the phalanx was the finest in the western world for several centuries. No other infantry faced it in hand-to-hand combat and won until the new tactics of combined arms made it obsolete. The last great success of the phalanx was in Alexander the Great's campaign against the Persians, although in that army it fought as part of a combined arms army.


Greek infantry soldiers of the Classical Age were called hoplites, from the name of their large shields, called hoplons. For battle they wore a cuirass (breastplate), helmet, and greaves. They were armed with a long spear or pike and sword. Hoplite armies fought each other hand-to-hand in the dense phalanx formation that faced the enemy with a bristling wall of spear points staggered at chest level. Fighting at close range in such a formation required a commitment to training and discipline that became a way of life. Hoplites were the best infantry soldiers in the world for many centuries until being supplanted by the more flexible and functional Roman legionnaires.

Answer 2

The Phalanx is the name of a formation, which is made up of Hoplites. Although a Hoplite might carry a sword for personal defence they are famed for their double-pointed long spear called a "Sarissa" which could be from 13-21 feet long. They also carried a shield, erroneously called a hoplon (Aspis).

Answer 3

The phalanx is a square formation of men armed with spears and shields.

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Actually, I couldn't have been futher off about the hoplites. Just ignore me.

Answer 4

It's a military formation of spear-and-shield wielding soldiers, popularized by Ancient Greece. Hoplites...eh, I forgot.

Answer 5

a phalanx is an ancient formation where men put themselves in a square locked shields, put their spears in front and marched, this was effective against cavalry and charging units, the chariot was usually used to break this formation up

Answer 6

Greek phalanx was a column formation of heavy infantry carrying long spears.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_formation

Warfare in Ancient Greece centered mainly around heavy infantrymen called hoplites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplites

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Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_formation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplite