Aetolian Cavalry

[hoplite14gr]

Xenophon in Hippika describes machera as a long sword.
Most complete survivng long shwords (excluding bronze age) are from the archaic period and they are over 70 cm. Both leaf shape and straight are an option. Macedonians and Thacians had been influenced by thr skythian swords and in turn influesed southern Greeks.

Ah by the way "skythic saddle" would be availble for certain by the Hellenistic period.

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