Late Hoplites appearence

[hoplite14gr]

sorry, this is kind of a bump, but we don't "famously know" that the Spartans fought barefoot, only that they were barefoot (and also completely naked) in the agoge. On the battlefield, as far as we know it would have been a different story, with weapons and arrows scattered all over the ground. I think I've read here that Greek sandals were good at preventing foot injury.

I have posted a picture of these "sandal iron shods" on the Greek footware thread.
Yes ancient had tougher feet but campaigning in unknown terrain barefoot..hmmm

Kind regards