Hoplite Timeline

Hoplites are the major protagonists in Greek land warfare.

The hoplitodromos (a foot-race in hoplite armour is added to the schedule of the Olympic Games.

A combined force of Greek hoplites defeat the Persians at Marathon.

Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.

Xerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia's imperial ambitions in Greece.

Sparta wins the battle of Tanagra during the 1st Peloponnesian War with Athens.

Hoplites become increasingly lighter-armoured, as new battle tactics required more mobility.

Athenian and Corinthian hoplites fight a street battle in the suburbs of Solygeia.

A force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.

Spartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.

Athenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.