11-07-2009, 05:23 PM
I am currently writing a long work on just this - the reforms of the Aetolian, Achaean, and Boeotian armies during the Hellenistic period. Unfortunately, there are no good sources relating to the militaries of these states during the Hellenistic period. The only real source I can recommend is Pantos A. Pantos, Ta sphragismata t?s ait?lik?s Kallipole?s: didaktorik? diatrib? (Athens: Philosophik? Schol? tou Panepistemiou Athen?n, 1985). Pantos publishes a sizeable archive of sealings from Callipolis in eastern Aetolia dating to c. 217 BC which include numerous ones depicting Aetolian arms and armour. Almost all the rest that we know of comes from Polybius and epigraphical sources.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
