Spartan Shoes/Boots?

[Megas Methuselah]

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THEY DO USE OUTDATED EQUIPMENT ALREADY!!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]

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:

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]

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

[Phalanx300]

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]

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

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

[Phalanx300]

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

Yet it does speak in support of it.

[antisocialmunky]

I don't think you'll be looking at their shoes when they are man-training their way through a bunch of poor Pantodapoi.

[Megas Methuselah]

Yet it does speak in support of it.

I'm not denying that. But it is still a point that you, in your opening post, had taken too far.