Spartan and other Greek army camps

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Hi, I'm reading "Shades of Artemis" by Jon Martin, a novel about Brasidas. In it he describes a Spartan army camp precisely, as being arranged carefully like the spokes of a wheel. Is there any basis of fact for this description? Is anything known about the organisation of Greek army camps, or did they just put up a pallisade when they thought it necessary, with no organisation on the inside?

There are several "nit picks" in this book - tidal mud flats in Southern Greece, where titdal movements are almost non-existant, for instance. Mostly I just get annoyed at the large number of cavalry actions being fought by Spartans and other Greeks at the start of the Pelopponesian war in the book. There is even reference to a class of Spartan knights, who fight mounted. It's great to read a dramatisation of the lives of Brasidas and Thucydides though.

Chris