04-14-2009, 04:57 AM
I'm glad, by the way, that you've noticed that Eumenes was some 5,000 phalanx infantry short of Antigonus. Greek sources don't accord too much respect or scribe time to bowmen and the others that the upper satrapies contributed here.
Antigonus' Paraetecene numbers are "heavy infantry" only. Just as Diodorus only bothers himself with enumerating Eumenes' "heavy infantry" at Gabiene. This import is abundantly clear: the latter's phalanx was shy some 5,000 hence the "loading" of the left wing with which Eumenes led and the refused right. The battle would be decided on the generals' side of the field.
Antigonus' Paraetecene numbers are "heavy infantry" only. Just as Diodorus only bothers himself with enumerating Eumenes' "heavy infantry" at Gabiene. This import is abundantly clear: the latter's phalanx was shy some 5,000 hence the "loading" of the left wing with which Eumenes led and the refused right. The battle would be decided on the generals' side of the field.
Paralus|Michael Park
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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