Five years ago today I led my first phalanx drills at The Citadel. No one was seriously injured, and we learned a lot. Plus, saucer sleds make hella-good Macedonian peltai.pic.twitter.com/jjhk2eohoR
I need to buy or make myself an aspis, actually. I end up doing hoplite and sarissa phalanx floor exercises in enough of my courses that I really need to invest in props.
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...somehow my excuse that it is a legitimate scholarly exercise has not yet convinced my better half to let me spend the rent money on recreated pre-modern arms and armor though. Yet.
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Well, MHSleds worked as a much cheaper alternative, I just had to remake the suspension to turn it into a shield. It can also take the shock of some sparring.
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Were there different words for the little shield used by pikemen and the big one used by hoplites?
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There were, but they weren't always used to mean the same things. So the Macedonian shields, in particular, were sometimes called peltai, other times aspides, and often, because both words could mean other things, they were specified as *Macedonian* peltai/aspides.
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I offer my HS freshman a little extra credit for making cardboard/wood shields and PVC pipe spears, and we spend a day outside doing drill. Really brought home for me that a phalanx is probably the simplest articulation you can do with part-time militia.pic.twitter.com/oc2NYvHoxr
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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