Bronze helmets, greaves, armour, and bronze-faced shields make for an impressive army, but who fought in all that kit, next to whom, and how?

Theme: Greece in the Late Archaic period

• Murray Dahm, 'State of play - Warfare in late Archaic Greece'.
• Ben Truska, 'Two coins in the hand - Economics and war in Archaic Greece'.
• Adam Godfrey, 'A man of bronze - The Archaic hoplite up close'.
• Murray Dahm, 'Writing their names in blood - The Battle of the Champions'.
• Paul Bardunias, 'Gleaming like the sun - The Archaic Greek shieldwall'.
• Annelies Koolen, 'Bring in Colophon! - Cavalry in Archaic Greece'.

Features:

• Mardonbek Rajapov, 'Their name alone terrifies - Who were the Hephthalites'.
• Mark McCaffery, 'Imperium - The authority to command'.
• Velite Aquila, 'An underwater source - Roman soldiers of the First Punic War'.
• Nicky Nielsen, 'The "Late Egyptian Miscellanies" - Daily life for the soldiers of Ramesses II'.
• Sean Lake, 'The problematic Spoila Opima - A rare and mysterious military honour'.
• Jo Ball, 'Name, unit, kit - The tombstone of Severius Acceptus'.