12-31-2014, 01:25 PM
The only text i found is this, it's in greek. I wasn't able to find an english version until now:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...apter%3D11
Anyway, if you click on words, you can have a translation.
As far i know, Arrian, in the ektasis kata Alanon, distinguish between a close order formation (pyknosis) and an even closer one, in order to receive a cavalry charge. He doesn't use the term synaspismos, but he say that legionaires, already deployed in closed order, further close their formation and locking their shields. (the greek term is enchrimpto, wich means to put close)
http://members.tripod.com/~S_van_Dorst/A...taxis.html
The question still remains: is this the same formation, with the same distances, used by greek phalanx?
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...apter%3D11
Anyway, if you click on words, you can have a translation.
As far i know, Arrian, in the ektasis kata Alanon, distinguish between a close order formation (pyknosis) and an even closer one, in order to receive a cavalry charge. He doesn't use the term synaspismos, but he say that legionaires, already deployed in closed order, further close their formation and locking their shields. (the greek term is enchrimpto, wich means to put close)
http://members.tripod.com/~S_van_Dorst/A...taxis.html
The question still remains: is this the same formation, with the same distances, used by greek phalanx?
Francesco Guidi
