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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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."
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.
