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    yearly income Solon, the reformer who established the hippeis Worley, Leslie J. (1994). Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece. Boulder, Colorado: Westview...
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    were also divided based on their land production: pentacosiomedimnoi, hippeis, zeugitae, and thetes. The lower assembly was given the right to hear appeals...
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    "Kiwaia hippeis (Meyrick, 1901)". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. 2015. Retrieved 2023-03-07. Savela, Markku, ed. (6 May 2016). "Kiwaia hippeis (Meyrick...
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  • Reception of Herodotus". Society for Classical Studies. "Arimnestos - Hippeis". Hippeis. Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2016-11-13....
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    five elected ephoroi. A select group of 300 men as royal guards, termed hippeis ("cavalrymen"), accompanied the kings. Despite their title, they were infantry...
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    The concept of knighthood may have been inspired by the ancient Greek hippeis (ἱππεῖς) and Roman equites. In the Early Middle Ages in Western Christian...
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    in charge of maintaining public order as judges, and they used Sparta's Hippeis, a 300-member Royal guard of honor, as their enforcers. There were separate...
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    Macedonian army Army of Macedon Ballista Cretan archers Hellenistic armies Hippeis Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx...
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    A hippeis rider seizes a mounted Amazon armed with a labrys by her Phrygian cap. This 4th-century AD Roman mosaic, from Daphne near Antioch-on-the-Orontes...
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    often placed on the left wing. In the Spartan battleplan, therefore, the hippeis (an elite force numbering 300 men) and the king of Sparta would stand on...
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    Cameron, "The Messenger's Tale I", Hippeis (Christian Cameron) Miles Cameron, "The Messenger's Tale II", Hippeis (Christian Cameron) "Dark Forge • Christian...
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    carbines. Light cavalry was used infrequently by Ancient Greeks (who used hippeis such as prodromoi or sarissophoroi) and Ancient Romans (who used auxiliaries...
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  • warrior Gurkha Hajduks Harii Hashashin Hersir Herules Hessian Highlander Hippeis Hird Hoplite Hospitaller Housecarl Hulubalang Huns Hyksos Hussars Hwarang...
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  • ancient testimonies. However, comparing them with the Spartan elite unit hippeis (ἱππεῖς) and the Athenian epheboi (ἔφηβοι) recruits, DeVoto estimates that...
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    Leonidas I with his personal bodyguard (the Hippeis) of 300 men. The customary elite young men in the Hippeis were replaced by veterans who already had...
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    included establishing four property classes: the pentakosiomedimnoi, the hippeis, the zeugitai, and the thetes. The classifications were based on how many...
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    Macedonian army Army of Macedon Ballista Cretan archers Hellenistic armies Hippeis Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx...
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    (Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneis; Attic Ἀχαρνῆς; Acharnenses), 425 BC The Knights (Ἱππεῖς Hippeis; Attic Ἱππῆς; Latin: Equites), 424 BC The Clouds (Νεφέλαι Nephelai; Latin:...
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    A hippeis rider seizes a mounted Amazonian warrior armed with a labrys by her Phrygian cap. Roman mosaic emblema (marble and limestone) from Daphne, a...
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  • citizens who made up the Hippeis, the heavy cavalry, who were drawn from the second census class. The cavalrymen of the hippeis provided their own equipment...
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  • produced 500 bushels of produce per year, could serve as generals in the army Hippeis – Knights, those who could equip themselves and one cavalry horse for war...
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    Leonidas I. Leonidas took with him the 300 men of the royal bodyguard, the Hippeis. This expedition was to try to gather as many other Greek soldiers along...
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    annually. eligible to serve as strategoi (generals or military governors) Hippeis valued at 300 medimnoi or more annually. approximating to the medieval...
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  • top three of the original four property classes (the pentacosiomedimni, hippeis and zeugitae, but not the thetes) and to citizens over the age of thirty...
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    with Persian cavalry led the Greeks to create their own cavalry arm, the Hippeis, composed mostly of upper-class citizens who could afford to maintain a...
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    Macedonian army Army of Macedon Ballista Cretan archers Hellenistic armies Hippeis Hoplite Hetairoi Macedonian phalanx Military of Mycenaean Greece Phalanx...
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  • 594/3 BC, anyone from each of the four classes (the pentacosiomedimni, hippeis, zeugites and thetes) could become a juror. This was meant to make the...
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  • producer: Pelle Ferner Creative consultant: Lennart Blixt Voice recording: Hippeis Media Music: Joakim Karlsson Soundeffects: Elin Ferner Editing: Pelle Ferner...
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