10-08-2012, 05:28 AM
I agree. The time difference between the Mycenaean army and Alexander's army (or another Greek army) is probably too big in trying to devise a detailed relationship between the two. There was also the pakana used by the Mycenaeans, we know they used these from the Shaft Grave excavations. Later on, though, it seems that the spear was shortened to 5-6 feet which allowed the soldier to carry his shield, which at the time would've been either a aspis or an inverted pelta.
See McBridge, p. 16.
Do you by chance know the passage where Homer describes it?
See McBridge, p. 16.
Quote:This very long spear (10.4 m in the Iliad, 15.677) was also used by the Romans against Hannibal at Nola, where supposedly Marcellus instructed his soldiers to equip with these and thus snatched the victory (Plutarch, Marcellus 12.4.5.).
Do you by chance know the passage where Homer describes it?
