07-01-2009, 08:01 PM
So your Hoplites actually fought in 'open' order? ........the use of psiloi in the fashion you describe seems to be described by the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus - but probably by 500 BC, fighting in close order was the norm ( so far as we can tell from scanty information)
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff