Dory (spear) grips are debated, but I personally believe hoplites did whatever worked based on the totality of the circumstances. This means you’d see a wide variety of grips.https://twitter.com/CraigHlady/status/1232693273229053952 …
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Phew. People get really passionate about this (also othismos models)
I am a 'soft' othismos thinker: charge, collide, maybe some pushing. I'd think the formation would accordion naturally - a press at the impact of the charge, followed by men naturally spacing out. But I don't think anyone can be sure enough about anything to be angry about it.
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Ditching the othismos entirely seems to me to run afoul of the evidence. The word means what it means. Tyrtaeus' description is really quite clear.
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Yup! That’s my argument. But people have a super allergic reaction to literalist interpretations. But in the end, it matches my lived experience. It’s what *I* do when I’m in the kit, and it’s effective as hell.
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