Hoplite Shield Designs

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Exactly.I suppose the new phalanx formation was also a great aid in not killing your brother.We have examples of hoplites fighting against their own citizens without realising it,when the phalanx broke.That happened to the Athenians at least two times in the Peloponnesian war,one in Epipolae in Syracuse and another in Macedon.
Some times we know so little about certain things and yet we have a spesific image in our minds,and we think it was that way.For example who knows what a Spartan(or any) phalanx looked like.No one mentions any differences between Spartiates and any other army.Except the red cloaks that I-unlike the majority here-believe they wore it in battle and was the only thing the served uniformity to them.
Khairete
Giannis