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Oct 1, 2006 9:46 pm
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In the file section of Ancient Tactics you can find the Othismos files (push or shove) that Paul had uploaded some time ago. Pretty interesting and I believe...
That's an interesting comment about the use of swords by hoplites. The swords that I have seen seem to be more suited to overhand rather than underhand use. ...
... I haven't had the chance to read any of the articles (I just joined the list), but until this comment I had always assumed that during the Othismos...
... The ... than ... Yes, any slashing blade - such as the kopis - would suggest overhand use. A broad sword most likely also. However a short Spartan Xiphos ...
I completely agree with all your 1st & 2nd rank comments about spear use. As for the xiphos use however, I'm not sure I agree with your fundamental assumption...
... I think the Dory was commonly 8 feet. ... joined ... during ... There is a line in Tyrtaeus (if anyone has a link to his complete works in english please...
Hi Hmmmm. I did once build a swiss pike block using SCA guys. Underhand works. I am not sure about all these quibbles about the merits. Swiss/German drill...
For those of you who I have not been introduced to, I'm Barry Jacobsen; creator and Basileus of the Spartan Warband. http://www.spartanwarband.com/gallery/ The...
... (bear in mind that my opinions come from scuffles rather than re-enactment) if you put your "bad" leg forward, bent at the knee and stretch your "good" leg...
... to be directed toward the opponent's thighs or groin. Paul is right here again, in that in pursuing a fleeing enemy, the hoplites were more likely to...
... enactment) ... your ... against the ... wrestling ... I would suggest a different sport as a better analogy. In american football opposing lines "push" in...
... as "artistic license". If you think WE are skeptical, imagine how critical an Athenian or Corinthian veteran would be, if the scene painted on a vase he...
... Much like historical re-enactment, american football is one of the things we don't have in Greece. It's not even a tv spectacle and so we miss such fine...
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Oct 5, 2006 10:11 am
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... dances. ... but your ... I am being imprecise because we don't have circle dances in america, though some still do line dances. Actually I am referring to...
... I believe we do not know what the Phyrric dance was like (which is the dance in question), only that the dancers bore arms. However some theorize that...
This issue has been bugging me a while, and this week I found what seems to be the locus classicus for a Roman pilum shower breaking a phalanx formation and...
... (of ... them ... However, not all those legionariii would the throwing their pilum at the same time as the cohortes of the second and third line are most ...
... What length were the spears of the Helvetii ad what size the shields? They were Keltic if I recall, but I have seen later depictions of Germans weilding...
They were javelin and sword armed, not spear or pike. Phalanx just means an orderd body of troops, with the implication of close order. )After they were...
I don't know anything about the (4th century AD!) Makedonian-style unit created by the Romans, nor have any idea of its relevance to this discussion. The arms...
... unit created by the Romans, nor have any idea of its relevance to this discussion. ... The relevance would be in finding a troop type which was armed with ...
... style ... But you aren't going to find it in Ammianus. However, IIRC the later Byzantine manuals specify fairly long spears (in the 14' range I think) with...
Well what do you do with it once you've found it, Paul? I thought the topic (and relevance) here was the effectiveness (or not) of the Roman pilum "shower" on...
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