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Xairete
We are happy to inform you about the creation of an Hoplite group in France, mainly centered on the Rhone river (from Lyon to the Mediteranean), and in connection with Athenea Promakhos.
We hope to fill up the gap between hoplites in Spain, UK, Germany and in other parts of western Europe and replace the missing link that will allow to lock the ranks of the phalanx.
Candidates are welcome !
Regards
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Hello Demetrios,wellcome and congratulations! Indeed,france neede to have a hoplite group!Good luck in your beginning and whish we will see your ranks becoming deeper and deeper,until you reach the "Theban way" :lol:
Any photos from your beginning?
Khaire
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Laudes to you and your colleauges. Even more at Marathon...
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Pytheas rises from the ashes of obscurity!
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Best wishes for your success from Greece!
Please advice your website. Laudes!
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Have to give laudes for a great feat!!Bonne chance a toute le monde dans le groupe!!
Out of sight of subject shores, we kept even our eyes free from the defilement of tyranny. We, the most distant dwellers upon earth, the last of the free, have been shielded till today by our very remoteness and by the obscurity in which it has shrouded our name.
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Hola ! We will manage tu beat Athenea Promakhos on the battlefield with the best othismos ever seen... lol
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Congratulations from Canada! See you at Marathon!
Qui plus fait, miex vault.
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Congratulations from the iberians of Ibercalafell!
It's always a good notice the creation of a new reenactment team! I wish you a long way to cross!
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Demetrios,
If you need a name for the group you have some good choices from the Greek colonies established:
600 BC : Foundation of Massalia (Marseille).
575 à -530 BC : Establishment of other trading posts to the west by the Phocaeans: Agatha (Agde), Emporion (Ampurias), and in the lower Rhône valley, commercial stops between the Greeks of Marseilles and indigenous peoples: Rhodanousia (Saint-Gilles-du-Gard?), Heraclea (perhaps) and Theline (Arles). The latter became a colony between 500 and 400 BC.
400 BC : Retreat of the Greeks from the center of the lower Rhône valley (the colony of Theline becomes the agglomeration of Arelate with a mixed population), benefiting the reinforcement of the coastal line of defense by the foundation of new small colonies: Olbia (Hyeres), Antipolis (Antibes), Agathe (Agde) reestablished by Marseilles. -
300 BC : Reinforcement of the commercial circuits against repeated attacks by the Celto-Ligurians: foundation of colonies at Tauroeis (Le Brusc) and Nikaia (Nice).
OK so now we have 17 groups that I know of including Demetrios':
Ares Anax
Athena Promachos
Enomotoi
Hetairoi
Hoplites of Athena
Spartan Society
Spartan Warband
Spartan World
Spartiatikes Mores
300 Spartan Warriors
The Ancient Hoplitikon of Melbourne
The Greek Warriors
The Hoplite
The Hoplite Association
The Sydney Ancients
Warriors of Greece
Western Spartans
From memory Italy has one or two groups as well - Teuta Spineta doing experimental archeology with Greco-Etruscan material and Figli del Sole who do late classical and Hellenistic living history.
I'm sure there was a group in Russia doing Ancient Greek living history a little while back ago but I haven't seen a webpage for them in over 3 years.
This doesn't include those individuals and their friends putting together greek kit on the quiet.
My we have grown !
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Best add another one. Taxeis Plataiai has 11 member so far.
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