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    mentions the Thracian peltasts, while Xenophon in the Anabasis distinguishes the Thracian and Greek peltast troops. The peltast often served as a skirmisher...
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    The peltasts, usually serving as skirmishers, were armed with several javelins, often with throwing straps to increase stand-off power. The peltasts hurled...
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    is in the central and eastern areas of modern-day Pernik Province. The peltasts raised from the Agrianes were the elite light infantry of the Macedonian...
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    Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx Peltast Pezhetairos Sarissa Sacred Band of Thebes Sciritae Seleucid army Spartan...
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    philosopher) 300 hoplites and 300 peltasts under Pasion the Megarian, until he deserted in Syria 1,000 hoplites, 800 Thracian peltasts, and 200 Cretan archers (and...
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    upkeep of military equipment, operated on the battlefield as psiloi or peltasts; fast, mobile skirmishing troops. Weapons that used copper were becoming...
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  • Volume Two (1995) Palimpsest Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (1995) Peltast Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (1995) Normal and Greater Raggamoffyn...
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    individually forged. The Takabara were a rare unit who were a tough type of peltasts. They tended to fight with their own native weapons which would have included...
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    believed to have been influenced by the 'peltast' developed by the Athenian general Iphicrates. The Iphicratean peltast was not a skirmisher but a form of light...
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    usually described as swordsmen, they defeated a Theban cavalry by using peltast tactics, so they were certainly skilled in other areas of warfare as well...
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    peltasts, roughly 2,000 men were selected to serve in the elite agema vanguard, with other peltasts numbering roughly 3,000. The number of peltasts varied...
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    Italy. Ancient Greek warfare Clipeus – a similar shield used by the Romans Peltast – a light infantryman using a lighter pelte shield Thyreophoroi and thorakitai...
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    own kings. The Thracians and Agrianes were widely used by Alexander as peltasts and light cavalry, forming about one fifth of his army. The Diadochi also...
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    Thracian peltast, 5th-4th century BC. Thracian troops formed a significant component of Andriscus' army, and the bulk of his initial force...
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    kingdom of Thrace, and also the short lived Dacian kingdom of Burebista. The peltast is a type of soldier of this period that originated in Thrace. At this...
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    concepts by their closest twentieth-century equivalents. Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended...
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    Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx Peltast Pezhetairos Sarissa Sacred Band of Thebes Sciritae Seleucid army Spartan...
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    heavier weapons and armour to fit their role. Light infantry, such as Greek peltasts, Balearic slingers, and Roman velites, using open formations and greater...
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    Rhesus Odrysian Kingdom Teres I Cotys I Seuthes III Rulers Skudra Warfare Peltast Trojan War Greco-Persian Wars Peloponnesian War Wars of Alexander Battle...
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    Ancient Greece and Roman times in the form, for example, of the Greek peltast and psiloi, and the Roman velites. As with the so-called "light infantry"...
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    He then formed the peltasts to the left of his cavalry, and his phalangites to the left of the peltasts, then forming a peltast line 16-men deep and...
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    peltasts, roughly 2,000 men were selected to serve in the elite agema vanguard, with other peltasts numbering roughly 3,000. The amount of peltasts varied...
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    the depictions of the helmets used by cavalry and light infantry (cf. Peltasts of Thrace and Paeonia), whose headgear – aside from the traditional alopekis...
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    other by a hill. The Boeotians had 7,000 hoplites, 1,000 cavalry, 500 peltasts and 10,000 light troops. The right wing was formed by troops from Thebes...
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    Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx Peltast Pezhetairos Sarissa Sacred Band of Thebes Sciritae Seleucid army Spartan...
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    Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx Peltast Pezhetairos Sarissa Sacred Band of Thebes Sciritae Seleucid army Spartan...
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  • command of Gorgidas. Phoebidas engaged the advancing Theban army with his peltasts. The harrying of the light infantry apparently proved too much for the...
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    the phalangites strapped a smaller pelte shield (usually reserved for peltasts, light skirmishers) to their left forearm. Recent theories, including examination...
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    the Cabeirion. In warfare, the pilos type helmet was often worn by the peltast light infantry, in conjunction with the exomis, but it was also worn by...
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    sarcophagus and one of its two decorated sides. Battle scene: a Greek mercenary peltast (left) and an Achaemenid dynast of Hellespontine Phrygia (center) attacking...
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