08-23-2007, 02:34 PM
The young men, if we are to believe the scholars, officially became adults at the age of 18, underwent military training for two years and were also members of the peripoloi (home guards). They remained hoplites from age 20 through 29 with the potential for being called upon until they were 60.
[size=75:wtt9v943]Susanne Arvidsson
I have not spent months gathering Hoplites from the four corners of the earth just to let
some Swedish pancake in a purloined panoply lop their lower limbs off! - Paul Allen, Thespian
[/size]
![[Image: partofE448.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/GloryofSparta/partofE448.jpg)
I have not spent months gathering Hoplites from the four corners of the earth just to let
some Swedish pancake in a purloined panoply lop their lower limbs off! - Paul Allen, Thespian
[/size]
