Spartan Shoes/Boots?

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Megas Methuselah 00:10 08-05-2009

Originally Posted by Phalanx300:
Spartans had apparantly a special type of shoe and seeing how conservative it was it most likely used it at EBs time frame as well.

Lol. Assuming the Spartans used outdated equipment solely because they were "conservative" is somewhat ridiculous:

Hey, guess what?! I think the Spartans used stone-tipped spears and wooden armour during EB's timeframe, seeing how conservative they were and all!

paramedicguyer 00:44 08-05-2009

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah:
Lol. Assuming the Spartans used outdated equipment solely because they were "conservative" is somewhat ridiculous:

Hey, guess what?! I think the Spartans used stone-tipped spears and wooden armour during EB's timeframe, seeing how conservative they were and all!

Dude, I'm sure you've read the new thread from krusader...so why be lke that?

Aemilius Paulus 03:33 08-05-2009

Originally Posted by paramedicguyer:
Dude, I'm sure you've read the new thread from krusader...so why be lke that?

Meth was not spamming, it was a jest in the topic of the thread and completely legitimate IMHO. And he had a point too. Nor did he disrupt the thread by prompting more spam, other than my Apology.

MeinPanzer 02:22 08-05-2009

We have a statue from the 2nd c. AD showing these boots in use from Sparta.

Megas Methuselah 03:31 08-05-2009

Originally Posted by paramedicguyer:
Dude, I'm sure you've read the new thread from krusader...so why be lke that?

It was an honest reply. Being "conservative" isn't enough of a reason to conclude Spartans used outdated equipment. Unfortunately for me...

Originally Posted by MeinPanzer:
We have a statue from the 2nd c. AD showing these boots in use from Sparta.

... the professor appeared and brought proper evidence. *exasperated sigh*

EDIT: Wait, is this statue entirely conclusive? For all we know, judging by the fact that this statue was dated to the 2nd century AD, these boots could merely have been a revived fashion in Sparta, a fashion which was non-existent during EB's timeframe. I'm not saying that this was the case, but we'd need more solid evidence to deduce that these particular boots were widely used amongst the Spartans during EB's timeframe.

Phalanx300 20:37 08-05-2009

OMGWTF... They use Pilos helmet which was around way back and bronze muscled cuirasses as well. They grow bears which was an Archaic practice.

Same with their long cloaks.

And hell they still fight as Hoplites here!

THEY DO USE OUTDATED EQUIPMENT ALREADY!!

I gues that makes them stone age men?

Watchman 20:47 08-05-2009

Dude. Spears are nevar outdated. Whaddya think the bayonet is ?

Phalanx300 20:49 08-05-2009

Originally Posted by Watchman:
Dude. Spears are nevar outdated. Whaddya think the bayonet is ?

A knife on a stick?

Well I gues you can call that a spear.

Azathoth 04:03 08-07-2009

Originally Posted by :
They grow bears

Holy ****!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Oh, I see - you meant beards

Megas Methuselah 04:13 08-07-2009

Originally Posted by Phalanx300:
OMGWTF... They use Pilos helmet which was around way back and bronze muscled cuirasses as well. They grow bears which was an Archaic practice. Same with their long cloaks. And hell they still fight as Hoplites here!

THEY DO USE OUTDATED EQUIPMENT ALREADY!!

I gues that makes them stone age men?

Until someone brings along some hard evidence, I'll give your unreasoned logic the benefit of the doubt.

Phalanx300 16:14 08-09-2009

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah:
Until someone brings along some hard evidence, I'll give your unreasoned logic the benefit of the doubt.

Indeed, so unreasoned, Spartan shoes are a thing later adapted like the Pilos, and there has been many mentions of Spartan/Lakonian shoes.

What many are doubting from The Spartan Army book is that he claims Spartan shoes were crimson red, the fact that they existed isn't.

http://books.google.nl/books?q=Spartan+Shoes

Edit: Here is a quote of that book about the shoe:

Originally Posted by :
Even so, we hear of a special type of Lakonian shoe. Literary sources describe it as being single-soled (haplai). Demosthenes (54. 34) referred to 'those who Lakonize with their tribounes and single-soled footwear'. Consenquently, we can identify the open-toed sandal with a tongue at the top, on statues of Greek philosophers, as the Lakonian shoe. Pollux (Onom. 7. 88) informed us the shoe was coloured red (not crimson).

Megas Methuselah 05:59 08-10-2009

Thank you, that is much more suitable than your "Spartanz r conzervatif so dey use old bootz."

Phalanx300 15:30 08-10-2009

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah:
Thank you, that is much more suitable than your "Spartanz r conzervatif so dey use old bootz."

Seeing that they still use Archaic things thats actually not that weird.

Megas Methuselah 22:37 08-11-2009

Originally Posted by Phalanx300:
Seeing that they still use Archaic things thats actually not that weird.

That may be so, but it still isn't conclusive.

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