12-31-2006, 12:42 AM
Quote:Ruben, I speculate (and I place odds in the negative) for pike men.
It is uncertain but not unlikely. I too feel more comfortable with spearmen
Carthagenian sacred band...hmmm after Crimissos I read that they were never as numerus or up to former strength and probably they were a group of nobles armed as cavalrymen.
Plutarch on "Timoleon" tell od infantry if I recall corectly.
I will try to find original sources on Agathokles for verification.
Happy New Year
And also considering that the military links between Cyrene and Carthage are tenuous at best, I doubt that Cyrenians ever served in the Carthaginian army in any number worthy of mention or that said army ever made use of pikes.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
