05-11-2008, 02:16 PM
Yeah...start writing a novel Stefane :lol: I'm sure we'll all enjoy it. Alexander must have been somewhere there close among the rest,fighting like his hypaspists,for if Alex never fought among them,what kind of hypaspists would these be?Who would they protect? Because as I said,the word hypaspist is not equal to "peltasts" for they don't take their name after their shield type,but after their task,to protect someone with thewir shields. I'm with Paralus on this one,it's a clear indication that the hypaspists were carrying a pelte(in this particular occasion),
Does anybody know any source stating that the hypaspists or any other unit in Alexandrian army had their hekmets painted blue? I know there are at least two soldiers in Alex's sarcophagus with such helmets,I wonder if thei can be identified as of any particular unit. Because although Alexander is among them fighting,he's on horseback,like some other Macedonians.
Khairete
Giannis
Does anybody know any source stating that the hypaspists or any other unit in Alexandrian army had their hekmets painted blue? I know there are at least two soldiers in Alex's sarcophagus with such helmets,I wonder if thei can be identified as of any particular unit. Because although Alexander is among them fighting,he's on horseback,like some other Macedonians.
Khairete
Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
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a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
