Psiloi

[hoplite14gr]

Zenodoros I need a better photo to show that it is not a bell curass (it look like one!) that the left figure is curring.

Most slingers and archers in Greece were herders with not enough means to fight as hoplites but some of them being free men and having skill with missile weapons bows and slings the served as auxliaries contesting broken terrain, performimg garisson duties, aiding the repaulse of cavalry, clearing enemy psiloi or being used as area denial troops.

Most goat herders in Greece used the sling as a traditioanl weapon and learned it from childhood. Only the Rhodians were more havily armed with shields animal pelts daggers and even swords and willing to engage in hand to hand. Other Greeks folowed suit after the hellenistic pariod

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