Does Hoplite Warfare stay dominant in Athenian Hegemony?

If Athens had won the Peloponnesian War would the hoplite would have remained the backbone of Greek infantry or would the supposedly open Athenians have embraced a more flexible form of warfare?
 
If Athens had won the Peloponnesian War would the hoplite would have remained the backbone of Greek infantry or would the supposedly open Athenians have embraced a more flexible form of warfare?

Its possible that they adopt something else, but that would require someone having ideas on what "something else". The hoplite tradition was very strong even in Athens, after all.
 
If Athens had won the Peloponnesian War would the hoplite would have remained the backbone of Greek infantry or would the supposedly open Athenians have embraced a more flexible form of warfare?

Athens already was supporting more flexible warfare. The tradition of the hoplite Pitched battle died after the Persian wars. All the armies of the Peloponnesian war used peltasts in their army to great effect as well as other lighter troops. Hoplites as the backbone stayed anyways until the Diadochi. Even under Alexander they were the most essential part of the battle. The Diadochi were the ones who used the Phalanx as a small arm of a much larger force of mixed troops.
 
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