02-14-2017, 08:26 PM
Didn't Philip have to conscript old men and boys in order to fill the ranks of his phalanx? If so, I can see the gesture to harden his men by parading mutilated bodies backfiring when a bunch of tyro boys seeing something new and horrifying were filled with fear and trepidation, instead of the anger and vengeance Philip was attempting to plant in them.