12-30-2006, 10:36 PM
Quote:The "Sacred Band" was decimated by Timoleon at the Battle of Crimissos roughly 200 years before. I think it was not reformed mostly for political reasons rather than lack of resources.
The close order infantry spears as I said in my previous post were probably Lybians or Cyreanic Greeks. The time frame allows both spears and pikes.
Pike phalanx from Cyrenaic Greek mercenarias is plausible but I am not sure how certain.
Cyrenaic Colonist info here:
http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/armies/I56.html
Kind regards
Cyrenian pikemen seems very unlikely considering the paucity of evidence fo Cyrenians functioning as phalangites at all.
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
