when you pick a design for your own hoplon, there. But even during this period, many cities allowed soldiers to choose their own designs. This is also a perfect gift item to aGreek Spartan collector. Angry spartan warrior with armor and hoplite shield shouted and throwing a spear - gg91892202 GoGraph Illustrations, Clip Art, and Vectors allows you to. The equipment might well be passed down in families, since it would have been. Hoplites had customized armour, and possibly family symbols on his shield. Trademarked by Veronese Design Studio Collection. The battle equipment of the Greek Hoplite was not standardised, although there were doubtless trends in general designs over time, and between city-states.
Later on, during the Hellenistic period, there is more evidence of standardised shield designs this was the time when standing armies, employed by the state, become more common. GREEK SPARTAN Warrior HOPLITE with Sword and Round Shield. “A Spartan had as an emblem on his shield a fly, and that, too, no bigger than life-size. When some mockingly said that he had done this to escape being noticed, he said, “Rather that I may be noticeable for I come so close to the enemy that my emblem is seen by them in its true size.” Plutarch tells the story of one Spartan who used a life-sized fly as his shield emblem: There seems little evidence of standardisation, at least up to and including the 5th century: each hoplite chose his own shield design. Hoplite shield design was incredibly varied.