Gymnète
The gymnète is a light infantryman of the ancient Greece. Resulting from the poor classes, it does not carry a armor and is armed only with a arc, a sling or Javelot S.
With Sparte, these combatants came from the Hilotes. The gymnètes open the combat by shootings of projectiles, before being withdrawn behind the phalanges of Hoplite S, which constitute the heart of the army and decide exit of the battle. They hold, in fact, the same role as the Vélite S in the Roman army .
Scorned a long time, the gymnètes and their colleagues the Peltaste S acquired an increasing importance following the second medic war. At the time of the Peloponnesian War, the light infantrymen had developed and diversified considerably. The best was from now on famous mercenaries and constituted a considerable asset in a battle. The peltastes being specialists in the javelin, the gymnètes were from now on especially critical archers and .
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