Greek footwear

[hoplite14gr]

IPODHMA = Greek for footware, usually means shoe but in ancient times it ment more. (literaly under the foot)

The term sandal is Greek. Open toed "kaliga type" sandals were the norm.
Bronze age sandals have been reconstructed by Mathew Amt. They do not seem to appear frequently in later art so most scholars reject them for classical period.

A more closed version of shoe named Karvatina. A good reconstruction existed at Togaman's site. Xenophon mentions frostbitten troops who wore karvatina without shocks.

For the boots check my posting on the Ifikrateans.
Thrakean boots were also available. Hoplites of the Krimean colonies needed and certainly used Skythian boots in winter.
Hopllits of the Iberian colonies were aquainted with the spanish straw snadals.
A type of felt shock that some claim apears on pottery depictions was available. Speculating is rife because potery images are not in good condition and paint has been scrached off
Goat wool shocks are water proof. They were issued in the Greek army until 1940.
"Sunny Greece" is only in spring and summer. We get winters too you know. The "Harvest-Grapegathering-War" was practished in the Archaic Era but after the Pelopenesian war campaighning season changed drastically.
Barefoot the scholars say but themselves don't face the prospect of guard duty on a Phokean fort were in winter temperatures drop below zero, or do they suggest that in winter posts were left unguarded.
Soft soles scholars say but what is there to tell us that exclusively soft soles existed?
Hope I helped.
Kind regards
Stefanos