06-21-2010, 06:31 PM
Quote:Because if you needed to arm hundreds of men on a budget, aspides without porpakes but with telamones are better than no shields at all. It may have been thought that it wasn't much necessary for those in the rear ranks to be equipped with porpakes anyway, because if they were caught in hand-to-hand combat, chances were that the porpax would be of little help.
But why must you remove them at all? Since you have to move the antilabe to the shield's edge in order to hold the sarissa, why not just leave it there? Especially if Spartans still had a modular central portion of the porpax as their forefathers did to keep it from being used without consent.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
