11-04-2010, 12:08 AM
Paullus,
You'll have to excuse me. I could have been a lot more exact in making that statement. I was referring generally to the organization of the army on the field of battle, and not how it was organized for war, and even more specifically to the phalanx rather than the auxiliary troops, which of course would have been very unique in nature so far north as Macedonia, and incomparable to anything the Boeotians may have had available... As far as I'm aware, it's still debatable even to suggest that sarissa were adopted by the Thebans prior to Philip, but the density of his phalanx formations was certainly inspired by them... What do we know about the sarissa situation? Certainly it wasn't something that could be credited as early as Epominondas.
Perhaps that question calls for another thread, or may even point me to another thread of the past?
-Gregory
You'll have to excuse me. I could have been a lot more exact in making that statement. I was referring generally to the organization of the army on the field of battle, and not how it was organized for war, and even more specifically to the phalanx rather than the auxiliary troops, which of course would have been very unique in nature so far north as Macedonia, and incomparable to anything the Boeotians may have had available... As far as I'm aware, it's still debatable even to suggest that sarissa were adopted by the Thebans prior to Philip, but the density of his phalanx formations was certainly inspired by them... What do we know about the sarissa situation? Certainly it wasn't something that could be credited as early as Epominondas.
Perhaps that question calls for another thread, or may even point me to another thread of the past?
-Gregory
Gregory J. Liebau
The Bronze Age Center
The Bronze Age Center
