Did the Greeks ever adopt foreign equipment ..

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If you look at the Parthenon Frieze you will see Greeks wearing Thracian cloaks, Thracian hats, and Thracian boots. Not only did they adopt Thracian clothing but they also created their own version of the Thracian peltast (some using Thracian shields) and adopted Thracian gods and heroes (Orpheus, Ares, Boreas, Dionysios etc). Thracian nobles are described as walking through Athens with "Thracian spears" though what they looked like nobody knows for sure - it seems likely that if they adopted Thracian riding equipment and Thracian peltasts they also adopted Thracian spears for those purposes.