The Dory

[Paullus Scipio]

For the sake of completeness, one should mention that some Greek cavalry at least, by 400 BC were wielding a spear in addition to javelins. This spear was also longer than usual, with a tapered shaft and small head, and hence a rearward balance point. It was called a Kamax. This raises a "chicken and egg" point. Was the longer-reaching spear developed first for cavalry (who have need of reach before anything else), and then subsequently adopted by infantry?
Or, as would appear from the iconography, did it first appear among Hoplites, later to be adopted by cavalry ?

The widespread depiction of this type of spear, and not in any nautical context makes me doubt very much the idea that it is for sea-fighting, though interestingly Iphicrates 'reforms' may have been to Athenian Marines....

I have attached an example ( which I have posted before, I know, but here for convenience) - The funerary relief of Panaitios c. 395 BC carrying kamax and at least one javelin....