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Questions (linothorax, sandals, Spartan moustache)
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Tegeat hoplite is wrong!
Most of the staff writen there is generalizations

Just got back from vacations in Lakonia.
I rumbled in Mani the route that Lakonian costguard patrols took.
You cannot go anywhere without sandals not to mention beotian boots!
There is a HUGE difference reading books and speculating and following the same trail. We stoped the car on out way in Thyrea and we visited Maninea in one day excursion. There is very little terrain that you can negotiate barefoot. After talking with old people over 65 I learned that they worked barefoot in the fields that were flat but had legs in putee style covers.
Astrite snake bite can be vary dangerous in summer. They wore shoes to go from home to field. Their grand fathers were so poor that children went barefoot and wore shoes only on Sundays in church.
Be real hardened feet do not negotiate this stony ground.

Kind regards
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Spartan moustaches - by Arthes - 06-29-2006, 09:27 AM
Re: Questions (linothorax, sandals, Spartan moustache) - by Anonymous - 07-03-2006, 09:51 AM
Re: Questions (linothorax, sandals, Spartan moustache) - by Anonymous - 07-19-2006, 10:34 AM
Re: Questions (linothorax, sandals, Spartan moustache) - by hoplite14gr - 07-22-2006, 06:38 PM

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