New hoplite book

[hoplite14gr]

Trmpeteers -usually linked with heralds were inheriting their position.
Armies were drilled to understand trumpet calls.
Also Euripides tragedies talk about "kymbala" and "crotala".

I know from personal experience that 2 forcibly beaten wooden sticks can be heard by a line of 9 men with Corinthian helmets
even if the person beating them walks 4 paces behind the stichos. The phalanx was going into battle obeying sound signals.
We know clearly that only the Spartan king was forced be law to be in the front rank. Other armies may not have been so strict.
Epameinondas at Lefktra might be in position to signal to a trumpeteer. In Mandinia he got the javelin while the enemy was dispersingand some psilos had the chance to cast a javelin. (Can't throw staff in locked shields formation)

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