08-26-2016, 01:19 AM
Paul Bardunias wrote
"Sarissaphoroi could be rearmed with longche at times right? "
Yes, the 'longche' seems to have been the traditional weapon of Macedonian warriors prior to the introduction of the 'sarissa', and there are plenty of descriptions of fighting - e.g. sieges and so on - where sarissas would be an impossibility.
We have one reference to a Macedonian being armed with both 'sarissa' and 'longche' in order to fight a duel, [Curtius IX.7.19] and in iconography the soldiers on the Aghios Athenasios tomb frieze are clearly 'heavy infantry' and carry 'longche' ( carrying a 'sarissa' indoors would be impossibly inconvenient! Some of our sources say the weapon Alexander snatched from a guard to kill Cleitus was a 'longche', others a 'sarissa', but as it apparently took place indoors, 'longche' seems more likely)..........
"Sarissaphoroi could be rearmed with longche at times right? "
Yes, the 'longche' seems to have been the traditional weapon of Macedonian warriors prior to the introduction of the 'sarissa', and there are plenty of descriptions of fighting - e.g. sieges and so on - where sarissas would be an impossibility.
We have one reference to a Macedonian being armed with both 'sarissa' and 'longche' in order to fight a duel, [Curtius IX.7.19] and in iconography the soldiers on the Aghios Athenasios tomb frieze are clearly 'heavy infantry' and carry 'longche' ( carrying a 'sarissa' indoors would be impossibly inconvenient! Some of our sources say the weapon Alexander snatched from a guard to kill Cleitus was a 'longche', others a 'sarissa', but as it apparently took place indoors, 'longche' seems more likely)..........
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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