11-27-2009, 05:30 AM
As for terms of "bodyguards", the term doryphoroi most certainly applies as "bodyguard" - at least in the time of Philip II and before. This is likely a result of a disparaging bent in its usage based on the previously noted (by Paul Mac if I recall) identification of this word with the 'retinue' of tyrants as it appears the Macedonians utilised somatophylakes to describe their guards. Thus Philip II possessed the armed guard of other tyrants.
It is this usage that confuses the identification of members of the various guards of the Macedonian kings. In fact the word somataphylake is just as often utilised in its simple descriptive fashion as it is in denoting the "seven" or, for that matter, the royal hypaspists. I too have not noted somatophylake in use with respect to Spartan kings.
Let us not embark upon a close look at the use of hetairoi....
It is this usage that confuses the identification of members of the various guards of the Macedonian kings. In fact the word somataphylake is just as often utilised in its simple descriptive fashion as it is in denoting the "seven" or, for that matter, the royal hypaspists. I too have not noted somatophylake in use with respect to Spartan kings.
Let us not embark upon a close look at the use of hetairoi....
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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