It's necessary to be aware of vipera aspis ( " Vipera aspis " ), a viper with a poisonous bite, but it does not usually attack without provocation.
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Hoplites carried a circular shield called a " hoplon " ( often referred to as an " aspis " ) made from wood and covered in bronze, measuring roughly in diameter.
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Shaked won the Laura Aspis Prize in 1991 as the number-one rated American chess player under the age of 13, and that same year became the youngest ever winner of the Arizona State Championship.
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Just as in " Aspis " and " Misoumenos ", the mercenary soldier in " Perikeiromene " has to be socialized into the polis before he can marry the romantic heroine.
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If a hoplite escaped, he would sometimes be forced to drop his cumbersome aspis, thereby disgracing himself to his friends and family ( becoming a " ripsaspis ", one who threw his shield ).
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The phalangite's shield-long misconstrued thanks to its description as a " buckler " by several writers-was a-diameter affair and less concave than the hoplite's " aspis ".
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To accompany this, Larger heavier aspis's were incorporated into the Army along with less flexible bronze armour and a distinctive new metal cap called a konos ( helmet ) which was a kind of Phrygian cap,
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He was also the first publisher ( 1969 ) of the first and third plays from the Bodmer Codex of Menander : Samia " The Woman from Samos ", " Aspis ", and " The Shield ".
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** I don't think drawing Kaspy in a simul or winning the Laura Aspis Prize makes him notable; and I don't think that winning the US Elementry school championship necessarily makes one a prodigy.
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Some groups stage mock battles such as the Spartan warband that equips its members with durable aspis and other period equipment, reenacting Phalanx formation tactics to their fullest extent by depicting two hoplite squads of reenactors clashing with each other.
