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Gig 'em, Coragus!

Diodorus though is clear in his Greek: tên Makedonikên sarisan - "the Macedonian sarisa". Interestingly, Ovid mentions a "Macedonian sarisa" being wielded by a centaur in Metamorphoses 12.466: Qui clipeo gladioque Macedoniaque sarisa conspicuus faciemque obversus in agmen utrumq...

mind you, I’ve not gone to find a sarisa-like lump of wood to try it I've gone into a building supply store several times, pulled down a 16 foot, 1 1/4 inch diameter pine pole, and hefted it around a bit. I quickly came to the conclusion that although a pike that long would work well in massed form...

[Don't know about the academic approval but the Greek is sarisais (sarisae/sarisas); sarisan (sarisa) Here's a link to the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon entry. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?layout.reflang=greek;layout.reflookup=sa%2Frissa;doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2393...

And please, someone, do tell me. What is the "approved" spelling of sarissa? There are 56,300 Google hits for sarisa and 172,000 for sarissa . Which one meets with academic approval? I used sarisa in the thread title because that's the way it's spelled in both the Greek and Latin accounts...

Corrhagos should be imagined as waiting sarissa erect in his left hand ,shield slung on his shoulder and forearm, he cannot make an efficient javelin cast as any foot movement will end in him either dropping the sarissa or getting entangled with it! So the champion of the Macedonians would treat Al...

Paralus wrote: by moving it from one hand to the other

So how long is your 6.5 kilo sarisa, and where along that length is the balance point?

Site with links to both Alexander mosaic and Kinch tomb:

http://www.ancientbattles.com/WAB_Maced ... xyston.htm

The infantry sarisa will generally have weighed around some six and a half kilos (fifteen odd pounds). Balanced in the hand at its balance point, this is not a heavy weight single handed. It is only when held toward the rear third that both hands will be needed. Corhagus may well have held the sari...

karen wrote: ΕΘΧΑΡΙΣΤΟ

What's that theta doing in there?

sarissophoroi is probably a contemporary nickname and reflects not the fact that they carried sarissai but that their spears were longer than those of the other light cavalry 'That's not a spear it's a goddam sarrisa!' even though it was only a xyston. This is what I'm getting at--that weapons ligh...

According to Quintus Curtius Rufus' account of the duel between Athenian athlete Dioxippus and Macedonian warrior Coragus, Coragus held a sarisa and a bronze shield in his left hand and a javelin in his right. After hurling the javelin, he began to pass the sarisa from his left hand to his right han...

When I went to Greece, many moons ago, I made a point of going to Naoussa only to be told the painting was lost... I believe I read that the tomb fell upon hard times and that the wall painting fell apart from neglect or vandalism. That's why the little painting done by the illustrator for the jour...

amyntoros wrote: Kinch, K.F. 1920. “Le tombeau de Niausta. Tombeau Macedonien.” Memoires de l’ Academie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague, 7me Serie Section des Lettres. Vol. IV. No. 3. 285-88.

Thanks--this is exactly what I was looking for.

Does anyone know from which source this image was scanned? It would be nice to have a bibliographic citation for research purposes.

http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/Helle ... _D14d.html