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IR80527 LEONIDAS 300 MOVIE SPARTAN HELMET

THIS BEAUTIFUL CRAFTMANSHIP IS MADE OF 18 GAUGE STEEL WITH BRASS ANTIQUED AND LAQUERED TO PROTECT FROM RUST.

IT IS FULLY WEARABLE AND CAN BE ADJUSTED IN DIFFERENT HEAD SIZES BY FIXING PADDING OR LEATHER INLETS.

Antique, Collectables, Militaria, Medieval, Replica

IR80527 LEONIDAS 300 MOVIE SPARTAN HELMET

Good Quality Iron Steel With Shiny Brass Polished style

All these helmets are hand made and are coated with oil/greese/laquered .

Adult size wearable Helmet

Please use Padding Or Cap for softness

IR80527 LEONIDAS 300 MOVIE SPARTAN HELMET

Inner Diameter Front To Back 9 inches, Ear To Ear 8 inches.

Circumfrence is 26.69 inches

18 Guage Iron steel with Shiny Finish.

18 Guage Iron Steel, Inner Diameter Front to Back 9 Inches, Ear to Ear 8 Inches

Hight 18" Inches from Top to Bottom, Circumfrence is 26.69 Inches

The reputation of the Spartan hoplite was well established. Their equipment was excellent, especially compared to that of non-Greeks. They had willpower and no fear of dying on the battlefield; to die in this way was the greatest honour a Spartan could hope for. At the back of every Spartan's mind, as he prepared for battle, lay the words of Spartan women ...that a Spartan hoplite should return home carrying his hoplon or being carried on it! When retreating, a hoplite discarded his hoplon (shield) as it was very cumbersome when attempting to run. To retreat was, for a Spartan, unthinkable. Hence the loss of a shield was considered cowardice. If a Spartan was killed in battle, his comrades carried his body on his hoplon back from battle for burial.

Comradeship in the Spartan army was extremely strong. According to Spartan tradition, Lycurgus had been most particular in fostering it. The agoge (Spartan system of education) had comradeship and belonging as one of its cornerstones. Young boys were drilled in packs. As a youth of 20 a Spartan male sought membership to one of the dining clubs. This syssition, as it was called, comprised some 15 members who spent considerable time with one another, even when not in training. When in battle, the syssition was the hoplite's "tent".

Regardless of the precise composition of the phalanx, in battle the drill was the same. The enomotiai marched behind each other in a large row. Before the battle the last troops of each enemotia positioned themselves on the left behind their leader to form a phalanx of four columns, in total 16 rows wide, and 8 rows deep. A space of two metres was maintained between the columns, but on the order "close ranks" the last troops walked to the left front to close gaps in the front row. The phalanx was in a closed formation and ready for the battle.

Whatever structure the Spartans might have used, it did not decrease their effective communication system. The king gave his orders directly to the ptolemarchs, who passed them on through the troops via the lower officers.

The biggest problem lay in the fact that each soldier was trained so well that the Spartan army practically consisted only of trained men (without an officer). Yet, the average soldier was so well drilled and trained that he knew as much about warfare as an officer! Such an organisation does not always give the best results on the battlefield. An example of this is the Battle of Plataea (479 B.C.) w the Spartan commander refused to follow the order of the Spartan king, Pausanias, to retreat. At the Battle of Mantineia (362 B.C.), the ptolemarchs at the right wing ignored the orders of the king as they wanted to win the battle in their own way. Later, these ptolemarchs were sued and banished from Sparta.

Orders were hard to understand in the uproar of a battle, and the Corinthian helmet (see illustration below) also reduced the hearing of the soldiers. This is the reason horn signals and hand signals were often used. However, they were some...

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