03-05-2010, 01:01 AM
Hello people, I was reading about this battle, in original and non original sources, and noted that some questions were obscure:
1. Who did make up the rear Phalanx? Arrian looks to say that they were another macedonian phalanx, but some authors say that they were allied troops.
2. What happened with the gap of the Phalanx? What was exactly this gap? If we read Arrian looks like the gap was inside the phalanx, but authors generally say the gap was between the phalanx and Parmenion group.
3. How many tasks did the rear phalanx? Arrian say that they went to the campment to expel the cavalry who was sacking it, but Nick Secunda and John Warry in "Alexander the Great. His armies and campaigns" say that they did two tasks: to help the camp guards and to attack the cavalry in the left flank of Parmenion, who had entered there through the gap of the phalanx.
1. Who did make up the rear Phalanx? Arrian looks to say that they were another macedonian phalanx, but some authors say that they were allied troops.
2. What happened with the gap of the Phalanx? What was exactly this gap? If we read Arrian looks like the gap was inside the phalanx, but authors generally say the gap was between the phalanx and Parmenion group.
3. How many tasks did the rear phalanx? Arrian say that they went to the campment to expel the cavalry who was sacking it, but Nick Secunda and John Warry in "Alexander the Great. His armies and campaigns" say that they did two tasks: to help the camp guards and to attack the cavalry in the left flank of Parmenion, who had entered there through the gap of the phalanx.
