New Article on Reenacting a Macedonian Phalanx

[Sean Manning]

Forumites will know the great article in JRMES by Peter Connolly where he equips 16 English reenactors with Macedonian shield and sarissa and has them go through sarissa drill.  He showed how to do a lot of things that you can still find people on the Internet saying are impossible, like how five ranks of pikes hang over one another or how leading with the rim of your shield opposite the hand lets you close up into one cubit per file.  A new open-access article along those lines is available, and so far its thoughtful despite not acknowledging his work:

Jean Du Plessis, "‘Synaspismos’ and Its Possibility in the Macedonian Styled Phalanx," Akropolis: Journal of Hellenic Studies 3 (2019) pp. 167-183 https://doi.org/10.35296/jhs.v3i0.41

(thanks K. Toohey on academia)