This list covers the armies of Greece from the recovery after the break-up of the Mycenaean city states until the introduction of hoplite infantry. While chariots still appear in Geometric period art, there are few depictions of warriors fighting from them and they probably usually dismounted to fight. There are many depictions of shieldless warriors, probably with light body armour, riding horses. Foot are shown with javelins and clad in little more than a helmet. From 900 BC, the grave- goods change to include multiple spearheads as well as daggers or short swords, whereas previously they had contained either a spear or a sword. Illustrations of the period show warriors carrying the large dipylon shield and the poet Tyrtaeus describes psiloi mingling with the shield-bearing heavier infantry. After 725 BC, the transition to hoplite equipment began and these “proto-hoplites” can be represented by mixing hoplite figures with others carrying the dipylon shields on the same bases. The full hoplite system of uniform standard of equipment and drill instituted by Pheidon of Argos and used by him to crush Sparta’s I/30 army in 669 BC is covered by list I/52. The change to true hoplites seems to have been completed by 650 BC. References: Armies of the Ancient Near East N. Stillman & N. Tallis, Early Greek Warfare P.A.L Greenhalgh.
— Greek Army 1160 BC - 901 BC
I/30 — DARK-AGE & GEOMETRIC GREEK 1160 BC - 650 BC
I/31 — NEO-HITTITE & LATER ARAMAEAN 1100 BC - 710 BC
I/35 — CYPRIOT & PHOENICIAN 1000 BC - 332 BC
— Greek Army 900 BC - 725 BC
I/30 — DARK-AGE & GEOMETRIC GREEK 1160 BC - 650 BC
I/31 — NEO-HITTITE & LATER ARAMAEAN 1100 BC - 710 BC
I/33 — VILLANOVAN ITALIAN 1000 BC - 650 BC
I/35 — CYPRIOT & PHOENICIAN 1000 BC - 332 BC
I/40 — PHRYGIAN 851 BC - 676 BC
— Greek Army 724 BC - 650 BC
I/30 — DARK-AGE & GEOMETRIC GREEK 1160 BC - 650 BC
I/31 — NEO-HITTITE & LATER ARAMAEAN 1100 BC - 710 BC
I/33 — VILLANOVAN ITALIAN 1000 BC - 650 BC
I/35 — CYPRIOT & PHOENICIAN 1000 BC - 332 BC
I/40 — PHRYGIAN 851 BC - 676 BC
I/43 — KIMMERIAN, SKYTHIAN & EARLY HU 750 BC - 70 AD
I/48 — THRACIAN 700 BC - 46 AD
I/50 — LYDIAN 687 BC - 540 BC
I/52 — EARLY HOPLITE GREEK 669 BC - 449 BC