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A peltast (Greek: πελταστής, peltastes) was a type of light infantry originating in Thrace and Paeonia and named after the kind of shield he carried.[1] Thucydides mentions the Thracian peltasts, while Xenophon in the Anabasis distinguishes the Thracian and Greek peltast troops.[2]
The peltast often served as a skirmisher in Hellenistic armies. In the Middle Ages, the same term was used for a type of Byzantine infantryman.
- ^ Williams, Mary Frances. "Philopoemen's special forces: Peltasts and a new kind of greek light-armed warfare (Livy 35.27)." Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte H. 3 (2004): 257-277.
- ^ James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras James A. Towle, Ed.
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