Shields of the Rising Phalanx: How Citizen-Soldiers Transformed Greek Warfare

Long before the age of empires, a new kind of warrior stepped onto the fields of ancient Greece-armed not just with spear and shield, but with a revolutionary way of fighting. Shields of the Rising Phalanx provides teachers with a rigorous, research-based narrative that examines how hoplites emerged, how they trained, and how they reshaped the political and military landscape of the Mediterranean ...