Greek Warfare: The Greek Army

“The mainstay of any Greek army was the hoplite.” (Greek Warfare) Greek hoplites carried a long spear, short sword, and circular bronze shield. His armor included a bronze helmet, bronze breastplate, greaves for the legs and finally, ankle guards.
Greek armies were spilt into separate units with ladders of command. The lochoi was the basic division of the phalanx. A lochoi was made up of a line of well-armed and well-armoured hoplite warriors typically eight to twelve men deep which fought as a tight group. In Athens the lochos was led by a captain or lochagos and these combined to form one of ten regiments each led by a taxiarchos. In 5th century Sparta the basic element was the enomotiai or platoon of 32 men. Four of these made up a pentekostys