09-21-2007, 06:30 AM
It is mainly the chapter about the peltasts who were later equipped by Iphicrates with spears and oval peltes. Do we have any evidence for this? It would mean the introduction of a kind of thureos 100 years before the celts had great impact on Greece. I interprete "summetrous" as round, compared to the crescent shaped Thracian pelte. With these round, perhaps wooden peltes hoplites were equipped, not peltasts.
Later in part 2 I'm not sure about every thought; that the Macedonian phalangites were also trained with javelins, that the peltasts = mercenaries did not use javelins for a long time and that the thureophoroi did not use javelins (I think they were all-round soldiers with javelins and spear). Only minor critique however, the articles are imaginitive and I like them very much. It's a luck to have such in the Inet.
Later in part 2 I'm not sure about every thought; that the Macedonian phalangites were also trained with javelins, that the peltasts = mercenaries did not use javelins for a long time and that the thureophoroi did not use javelins (I think they were all-round soldiers with javelins and spear). Only minor critique however, the articles are imaginitive and I like them very much. It's a luck to have such in the Inet.
Wolfgang Zeiler
