08-17-2010, 07:53 PM
Quote:Well,the aspis did have a quite distinctive for throughout its life,but this doesn't mean it has always been constructed the same way. Nor that different times didn't favor some minor chnages on the preferred size,depth etc.
As for the phalanx,this also passed through many stages or better said,it must have been under constant evollution,and we can't know exactly how it worked at any specific period. I do believe though that the aspis favored a generally more rigid formation,and this formation favored the aspis. its a round arguement.
Khaire
Giannis
A bit of the 'chicken or the egg' syndrome? :wink:
Seriously though, I was working around to the question of the phalanx as it is understood, it would seem that weaponry, techniques and formations would have evolved simultaneously, with one innovation leading to another.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
