L'impressario, I am... impressed

There is one point though that begs for a clarification:

The Iphikratian reform was:
a) not one that involved the bulk of the Athenian hoplites, just a small, more professional kind of "standing army".
b) not aiming at changing the hoplite phalanx warfare, but introducing a more mobile and more agile type of troops, to serve mostly as marines in the many small fleets employed by the Athenian at that time to harass the Peloponesian and literaly "bring the war at their homes".
c) a reform that produced a sort of peltast (that's how most ancient writers call them,not "hoplites") which could fight in a phalanx if need arose.

Other than that, I am pretty much covered by L'Impressario, who has such an extensive knowldedge of ancient Greek affairs, to even use the word "idiot" in it's original context.