03-25-2009, 01:42 AM
Quote:Macedonian infantry were apparently using 'javelins' against Onomarchos in 353 BC, and sarissa heads have not been found among the detritus of the siege of Olynthus (349 BC), but apparently several come from the battlefield of Chaeroneia (against Thebes and Athens in 338 BC), but again I emphasise that we simply don't know when these reforms were introduced.
Just to jump in here, the identification of spearheads found at both Olynthus and the site of Chaeroneia is subjective, and finds from both sites have been identified by some as sarissa heads and by others as javelins. Whether you wish to identify the finds from each site as belonging to sarissae depends on which school of thought you adhere to with respect to the form of the sarissa.
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
