Hoplite Shield Designs

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Personal emblems of this style did not exist at he classical times. The mora emblem was covering most of the shiled.
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Not quite accurated! I'm not saying that you are WRONG, but also NOT absolute exact...



Many illustrators (Hellenes & foreigners), based on pottery-paints & coins(MOST ACCURATE resourse to me), made some very... "close-to-reality" painting... Of course, there is ALWAYS a "however", speaking about Lacedaimonians...

Till late of 5th century and the early of 4th (when the symbols changes to a more "common" for all style - mora's symbols, army's symbols - the famous Hellenic "L", royal gaurd's symbols, etc.), each Lacedaimonian used his OWN symbol, like the rest of the Hellenes' Hoplites!
Indeed! I've done all these years huge research on the "Hoplon's" symbols, for each faction!...
Lacedaimonians used many "aggressive" symbols (wolves, boars, hawks, ravens, etc.) and many versions of their MAIN/BELOVED Gods, like Hercules, Artemis, "Dioskouroi" (like in my illustration), etc.

But... About Lacedaimonians... ANY opinion stands! Because the HUGE lack of informations! Lacedaimonians were the MOST "mysterious"/"closed"/xenophobe people of all Hellenes. They didn't used to keeping details of their lives or keeping proceedings by historics.
Very few (like Xenophon, Alkibiades or Kimon) left to live among them and they wrote their experiances; ALL DIFFERENT in many ways...
Even the Lacedaimonian ARMY FORM - an... simple "element" to study... by ALL their enemies - has been record DIFFERENT from each resourse.

For instance, according to Thucydides, Lacedaimonians were set in battle like this: 2 or 4 columns of 8 men deep (“Synskineaâ€