11-05-2007, 04:52 AM
Giannis wrote:-
The beauty of the system is that it doesn't matter how many are called up, or the depth in open order (8,10,12...), close order can always be formed by bringing up the rear half of each file !
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Quote:Yes,this is what Xenophon said in cyropaedia,with an anomotia of 36. What about the 25 mentioned by Herodotos? This was the archaic enomotiaThe numbers in an enomotia, sometimes called lochos in other states, would vary depending on the number of age-classes called up for that particular campaign, and as well, different city states favoured different depths - 8,10 and 12 are frequently attested to, and in some states a file-leader was called dekarch, for example. I don't believe there was any such thing as an 'archaic enomotia'.
The beauty of the system is that it doesn't matter how many are called up, or the depth in open order (8,10,12...), close order can always be formed by bringing up the rear half of each file !
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"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
