When and where, did hoplites in the traditional sense, last take the field for battle? For contex, the hoplite is the Greek heavy infantry man fighting in the phalanx with aspis, thrusting spear, shortsword, and wearing some kind of body armor and helmet. I am awear of a few sources which use the word, but by the contex aren't talking about hoplites. And the "Hoplite" need not be Greek, per say, but a people influenced by them.