"Aechme" literally means a sharp tip. A tip of anything it could be. The javelin / spear confusion is more related to the Homeric "Lonche". I'm not sure about...
... - the structure of the sentence is: Massagetai are both ... hand ... Or it could mean both of each, giving us 2 X 2 = 4 possible combos. ... It sure is. ...
... really say ... seem to ... they called ... Interestingly the Greek word Orichalkos means mixed-hardened copper, as apposed to Chalkos (copper). Orichalkos...
Guys, very interesting posts. It seems though that the Sarmatians thread has bred two spin offs - "Tacitus: hero or zero?" and "Steppen boar on a pike". I very...
... While a rare word (especially in prose) it's attested as 'spear' at least since Pindar (Ol. 9, 79). If I remember correctly it's also always associated...
Jorit, I originally began this whole thread with the issue of the kontos in mind. It appears consistently in Plutarch, a) as the principal (sole?) weapon of...
Mark, I guess I didn't make myself completely clear in my last post - of course *kontos appears quite often from the 3rd/2nd century onwards. I just meant that...
If I wrote somewhere "the shaft pierced right through him and came out the other way" a future civilization would assume "shaft" to be the name of some...
Hi Every day on the news, I see the press misidentify apcs as "tanks". The recenly lapsed "Assault Weapons Bann" did not ban any assault weapons(already...
Unfortunate that archaeology ( usally) only offers us the bronze and iron points of spear-like weapons, so it's usually difficult to reconstruct exactly what...
I've always been meaning to ask: Xenophon in the Anabasis mentions some exceptionally long arrows used by the Khardesh of 2 cubits length. A cubit measuring...
Here and there is one thing. Repeatedly in the same contexts over and again with no alternative word(s) is something else again; especially when (re kontos)...
Though no expert on archery, I don't think that you need a special bow for these long missles. Many primitive cultures use exceptionally long arrows- I am...
A few points. Arrows can be of any length, as long as they balance well, like any missle. A longer arrow would get a heavier head, not a lighter one, since the...
Hi First, there is no "magic" to the longbow! It is a simple self bow of approximately "D" section. When judging mechanical energy return, the ancient bone...
Thnx all for the replies. Paul, I too have seen pictures of the Amazon and African bows you mention and indeed the arrow seems to be much longer than the draw....
I was in my bath, when a thought hit me, would todays armys, modeld on the romans system(10 solders per squad, 8 squads to the century, 6 centurys to the...
As far as I know, the US army follows the rule of 3 since at least since WWII. That is 3 squads to a platton, 3 platoons to a company etc all the way up....
From the time when divisions first appeared (the prototypes can be found in Maurice de Saxe's army in the late 1740's) the idea of 2-3 maneuver units in an...
Hi And re-thinking my previous post....actually Hannibal WON. He did, winning battles did not win the war! Grin. Rocky ... combination thereof. I think the...
Hi Your structure isn't quite right for the U.S.....and probably has nothing to do with ROME What Rome did do was invent the "sergent". Armies at the time...
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... modeld ... century, ... Thanks , what i wanted to know was if mondern armys were products of natural selection, or of roman influcance....
Hi Historically, various people look back as educatedfolk and try to recreate the roman legions with varied success. Vegitius writing during the Fall invoked...
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I was wondering if any of you have tryed the historical sim: Rome Total war? I saw It's capability in the tv serese Dicicive Battles. and I was impressed. I...
I am under the impression that the Legio worked great for facing standing tactical armies that lacked similar organization: A legio/division or two could...
