What the description of Sphacteria has to tell us

[Phalanx300]

.....uuu..mm..mm the "300" were most unlikely to have been the conventional Hippeis - see discussion elsewhere.....

Yes, my mistake. They probably weren't the Hippeis, or at least, alot of them probably weren't.

That is interesting and not something which I had picked up on. I know it is getting off topic but what made you say this?

I bit late reply to this. But anyways, I've read that tradition suggest that they exchanged their cloaks as a sign of respect probably. I don't know if thats what truelly happened though.