For classics twitter consideration (@BretDevereaux @ProfPaul_J ) (without rendering my own opinion, which is worth little).https://www.academia.edu/45455304/The_battle_mechanics_of_the_Hoplite_Phalanx?fbclid=IwAR0qEj5KHMEj2JGOyzy8-1bgwKNdiQqS2CvlzKYp4qrZLIPCAi-aJIKrjNs …
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That paragraph (p9, second full graph) makes me nervous. "Pictures in pottery and sculpture" needs more than three figures to back it up and if the art *is* unanimous about the direction of shield overlap in synaspismos, my instinct is to believe the art.
Just skimming along, but fn73, Xen. Lac. 11.6 doesn't say what they think it says? Xenophon is talking about the ease of setting a line thin or deep through Spartan file leaders giving orders, not the 'open format...combin[ing] low density with increased depth."
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At least I read that passage as being about the number of ranks deep (e.g. 3, 4, 6, 8 men deep, whatever) not about spacing.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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