An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action Matthew Christopher
The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. And yet, despite this dominance, and the vast literature dedicated to detailing the history of the Hellenistic world, there remains fierce debate among modern schol… Celý popis ↓
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An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action Matthew Christopher
The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. And yet, despite this dominance, and the vast literature dedicated to detailing the history of the Hellenistic world, there remains fierce debate among modern scholars about how infantry combat in this age was actually conducted. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of the Romans at Pydna in 168BC, the pike-wielding heavy infantryman (the phalangite) formed the basis of nearly every Hellenistic army to deploy on battlefields stretching from Italy to India.
Christopher Matthews critically examines phalanx combat by using techniques such as physical re-creation, experimental archaeology, and ballistics testing, and then comparing the findings of this testing to the ancient
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