"City State Hoplite Examples" Topic

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I'm in the process of painting up a Macedonian army for LADG in 28MM. Fairly straightforward army that includes a # of Greek hoplite units. Given that I'm leaning towards Philips army I am using the League of Corinth as a guideline for which city-states to include. The members were Corinth, Athens, Delphi, Olympia, and Pydna. Finding examples of 'uniform' is a challenge. Athens isn't that hard, but I'd like to find 2-3 of the others to base my painting on. Anyone have examples? Sites? books?

Winged, I think you have that wide range of options which comes from there being so little information. I've heard guesswork, but I don't think you can clearly associate any polis on you list with a particular shield decoration in your period. I'd say that gives you the options of
1. a symbol associated with the polis. (Corinth really ought to be a bunch of grapes, but I could be biased.)
2. the first letter of the polis' name in the Greek alphabet.
3. a medley of individual shield designs, and there all I can say is that they seem to be simpler and more geometrical than they were a generation or two before.

It probably beats being sniped at over what shade of red the Napoleonic facing colors were.

Robert, fully agreed there! Spartans have their read and symbol, easy. Then everyone else went with the red. I've seen Athenian trim on the uniform as a sky blue, which I like, and will use for that unit. Consistency in helm plume isn't much an issue either (6-8 figures per unit in LADG) so matching is okay. Doing one of the others in red works as well, now to track down something that gives me a sense of the color that city-state used. Appreciate your points on the shields and likely to head in that direction.
Cheers!
Phil

In some cities was it not the custom to use the symbol of their patron deity on their shields?

Grelber

Greiber, the only ones everyone seems to agree on are a trident of Neptune for Manitea and a club of Hercules for Thebes--which is why I sarcastically suggested a bunch of grapes for Corinth. Every now and then someone mentions an owl for Athens, but no one gives anything I would accept for evidence. I suppose you could use a bow for Delphi, but at that point you've passed "the surviving evidence indicates" and arrived at "I think we can get away with."

this should help

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juat type in hoplite shield designs into google image search

link site with actual hoplite shield patterns