Hoplite Day: Part 1

[Greekco]

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[tnhl77]

great if the persians come we are Screwed!

[nedjimb0]

loving the kid with the uncut cardboard box on the far right first row

[SpartanOfAmerica1234]

AND WE 300 CHILDREN.......... Nah just kidding, kinda getting old really.

[lordofthenachos]

rome total war JUST GOT REAL

[dpsantos1994]

that's a sarissa phalanx not a hoplite phalanx.... but oh well..... it's really cool either way.

[crispian83]

Is this crap supposed to be a UNIVERSITY course?????

[SpinJ678]

@crispian83 um yes and do you have a problem with that? It teaches them ancient forms of fighting.

[Lemgardandre]

i wish my proffessor did that!

[BINOMAN007]

whoever this teacher is, he's awesome lol.

[fourganger88]

Underhand spears? *tsk*

[vhanhanzz]

@rocktupac2132 unm, yes they did run with armor and shield. it's called the hoplite run, the tactic spartans used againts xerxes' mobile archers, the hoplite tun was the tactic that the persians feared the most coz that era it was next to impossible, you just can't sprint long distances with 70lbs on you, which the spartans did.

[ballyballz]

@vhanhanzz actually many hoplite do too.=), it's part of the olympic

[vhanhanzz]

@ballyballz

it's an ancient kick ass feat. i wish i can do something like that lol!

[ballyballz]

@vhanhanzz lols, i feel like asking that bolt guy, (forgot his name, the one who broke the world record at the last olympic for running) to wear the actual hoplite armour and sprint, LOL, i wish i can too,

and i heard they sprint for 100yrds and some even ran a marathon in hoplite armour and they call it hoplithon, hahas.

[vhanhanzz]

@ballyballz

haha. it's a very difficult task indeed, i wonder how the hoplites did it back then. they must be really strong.

[ballyballz]

@vhanhanzz yea, one thing is for sure, there ain't air pollution and global warming back in 200bc.

wish i am just 1/2 as strong as them, that's so cool, hahas

[hansnery]

There's a gondor shield there and a upside down spartan. They would have no chance against the sarissas, they do look like welsh militia! ;P

[yankeemanful]

@hansnery haha anyways its not spartan its macedon the one with the vs

[hansnery]

@yankeemanful But isn't the Macedonian symbol a Vergina Sun?

[yankeemanful]

@yankeemanful yes it is

[jace1896]

my cappodocians would make good use of the dead women.

[LXMGN]

wasnt hoplites supossed to be protecting their friend at the left with their shields and with right hand holding the spear? that is why discipline and unity in this phalanx type formation were vital, if the formation was broken then all the formation was in peril of being totally anihilated

[tFighterPilot]

No that's the Romans.

[LXMGN]

romans did not use spears, they used pillums and short swords and a legion formation, not a phalanx formation

[tFighterPilot]

But in the Roman formation called Testudo each soldier protected the one to the left.

[ThatRomanDude]

@tFighterPilot no testudo was where the alll formed a turtle of shields to protect against arrows.

[tFighterPilot]

I know what it is. What I said that in the testudo, each soldier in the front row portected the one to the left. In the phalanx formation each soldier portected himself.

[theliberator1]

No, testudo, or tortoise, was used to defelct incoming arrows. the central trrops would hold the shield over their heads, the ones in front kept their's in front, the ones on the flanks faced outward. all the shields interlocked creating a roof or shell.

the phalanx of greece used 3-4 foot shields that when held in close formation interlocked and protected not only the one carrying the shield, but part of the man to his left.

learn your terms before you start arguing.

[yankeemanful]

@tFighterPilot testudo is roman idiot

[tFighterPilot]

@yankeemanful ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT?

[Biotoasts]

they look like a bunch of welsh militia

[Persetuul]

V-Victory shield! :D

To the battle now!

[tecna64]

... this sucks, half the dudes there think it sucks and wanna go, the other half is facing the wrong way... get some real men to do this

[Zaneslayer]

hoplites are gay now hoplite spartens are awsome!!!!!!!

[luukraver]

you don't have any idea what you are talking about are you? because a hoplite is a heavy armoured Greek soldier and spartans are people from the ancient greek state sparta. And tell me what you think is gay at soldiers who carry 70 pounds of armour and are really effective.

[gamaolas]

The two girls on the right got mixed up the Hoplite day with the Legionaire day and got a rectangular shield - Greeks used round shields, U shaped shields 8-shaped shields but never rectangular or triangular.

[Doliath]

And you mixed up Legionaire (member of the French Foreign Legion) and Legionary (a member of a Roman Legion).

[littlehistorian]

Hoplites!! heavy infantry, cool video, but i dont like to see pretending to be a hoplte, a female hoplite come on! sorr ladies nothins personal.

[aaf250]

hahaha he just cant position them hahaha

[whowantsabighug]

not impossible though, the iyrillians and thracians used phalanx to a lesser extent and couldve used women, but most of all dont forget the amazons

[Ellinobyzantinos]

he says left and they start with the right!!!!man they suck.They should have real archers shooting at them.That would motivate them...

[orckiller91]

nah only the NARP archers lol

[smoke0imix0god]

that would kill them too

[kais2345]

Or students throwing rocks XD

[balubulaba]

@Ellinobyzantinos

hahaha im in :D

[EdBond]

5:02 gondor tree

[smoke0imix0god]

yea he forgot its hoplite day not gondor day

[Plisken1986]

Give them some sarissas for some real fun.

Watch people get whacked in the head.

[kungfoolai]

is that a lotr shield one of the frontline people has got

[lordbone]

Yes, the white tree right?

[darkyswordy]

man can anyone make a long video about 300 but great video about spartiates

[Blackspartan]

Damn 2:06 nice chicks ur got there :P (in the white cloths)

[ghostmarines]

lol I know what you were looking at XD

[ghostmarines]

lol I know what you were looking at XD

[IronKevlar]

yeah what a nice ass on that one

[Blackspartan]

^^ reason for 5 Stars

[Hoplitikon]

Good to see the young learning a thing or two about Ancient history.

[balubulaba]

@Hoplitikon

yea that is very much how i feel too!

[ExploitationKid]

@Hoplitikon EXACTLY!!!! im one of those teens that love ancient history. :p started reading books about Ancient greece and persia at age 6 :p. I still read some of those books

[SaikyoMog]

That was a great day ^_^