How to portray a Spartan king from the classical era?

[hoplite14gr]

The is NOT a thread of evidence of an "exclusivelly black uniformed thespian unit"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of the them might have black crest cloacks or chiton but NOT all of them.
Some artist sold the story andc the whole world bought it! (black is sexy :twisted: )

The onlý uniformly black colour was the majority of the Thespian sheilds where a white cresent was painted on a black background (based on Munich Muserum examples)
see it here: http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia ... mpic-Games

But there were variations of red cresents or cresents painted on bronze like in attachment.

Kind regards