The thorakitai (Greek: θωρακίται; sg.: θωρακίτης, thorakites) were a type of soldier in Hellenistic armies similar to the thureophoroi. The literal translation...

Thureophoroi or Thorakitai, troops armed with an oval shield of the Celtic type, a thrusting spear and javelins. The Thureophoroi and Thorakitai pre-date any...

Creed Odyssey, where they serve as elite soldiers in the Ptolemaic Army. Thorakitai Thyreophora Also thyreaphoros: θυρεαφόρος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott...

Peltast – a light infantryman using a lighter pelte shield Thyreophoroi and thorakitai – medium infantrymen using thyreos shields Cartwright, Mark. "Hoplite"...

Fresco of an ancient Makedonian soldier (thorakitai) wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield, 3rd century BC...

nations began to field two new types of hoplites, the Thureophoroi and the Thorakitai. They developed when Greeks adopted the Galatian Thureos shield, of an...

adoption of new weapons and troop types such as Thureophoroi and the Thorakitai who used the oval Thureos shield and fought with javelins and the machaira...

cuirass/breastplate Linothorax, Ancient Greek armour composed of linen Thorakitai, Hellenistic soldiers equipped with mail Thorax (cockroach), a genus of...

Fresco of an ancient Macedonian soldier (thorakitai) wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield....

up of peltasts had defeated a force of hoplites. The thureophoroi and thorakitai, who gradually replaced the peltasts, carried javelins in addition to...