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by SpartanJKM
Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:03 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

Actually, upon a fresh search, Hammond does allocate for Theban massed depth at Chaeronea in both his works pertaining to this ( Studies in Greek History , p. 542, 1973 ed., and Philip of Macedon , pp. 151-152, 1994 ed.)- but for the Thebans and Sacred Band per se, thus the allied army could still e...
by SpartanJKM
Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:54 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

…Nothing compels us to believe that the Macedonians fell facing the Sacred Band where the mound sits. On this basis Hammond places the right of the Greek line. Nonsense… We are most certainly led - if not ‘compelled’ - to believe that an oak tree near the Cephissus, which was named after Alexander ...
by SpartanJKM
Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

A big misconception, I feel, is a notion that Philip marshaled his cavalry behind the infantry at Chaeronea. That would leave with a shorter frontage, not to mention the cavalry was the mainstay of the infantry in Philip’s system. Earlier against a different opponent in the Scythians who advanced of...
by SpartanJKM
Sun Feb 19, 2023 7:08 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

…Even should we accept Hammond's 30,000 hoplites for the allied army… Well, superfluous to mention, Hammond did not just pull that out of the air with baseless arbitrariness; in the same passage of Demosthenes mentioning 2,000 cavalry provided, he also mentions 15,000 infantry (non-citizens among t...
by SpartanJKM
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:34 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

thanks for providing this quote. I cut it together to double check that I didn't misunderstand the numbers: 254 skeletons, they took 3 skulls to examine and in 2 of those, the injury pattern suggests the assailants were above the victim. is that what they're saying? Your welcome. Yes - of the ten s...
by SpartanJKM
Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Discussion on Chaeronea
Replies: 28
Views: 57892

Re: Discussion on Chaeronea

Unfortunately, the discussion from Kathleen Toohey is seemingly no longer available. :( ...as Ma has shown he remains from the polyandrion show horrific head wounds inflicted by a downward heavy slashing weapon: the cavalry kopis... Mmm. I don't recall John Ma actually specifying that when he discus...
by SpartanJKM
Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:08 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire
Replies: 11
Views: 11302

Re: A B Bosworth: Conquest and Empire

Hi Alexias, Indeed, the one-two punch of Bosworth and Nicholas G. L. Hammond provides a supremely balanced and awe-inspiring degree of erudition on Alexander ; the 'problem', if I may, is that the bifurcation of the two scholars is a result of Bosworth's acceptance of the vulgate , and specifically ...
by SpartanJKM
Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:55 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Alexander sacked the city of Baalbek?
Replies: 9
Views: 7813

Re: Alexander sacked the city of Baalbek?

Hi all. Thanks for the sources there, Alexias. It must have been occupied by Alexander’s forces; Baalbek was located amid the action after Issus, and enviably situated in a fertile valley with a flowing nearby water-source. During Greek and Roman times, broadly identified, it was indeed known as Hel...
by SpartanJKM
Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:33 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

Greetings. An interesting new book just came out (November of 2019), titled New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare (edited by one Lee L. Brice ); it’s a compilation of essays from various scientific specialists who aim, through new evidence from modern archaeology and skeletal biology, etc., to h...
by SpartanJKM
Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:43 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

Can you explain to me how these "cavalry squadrons were marshaled at certain points along the front with their preponderant infantry lines" and how they then exploited gaps at angles? You really don’t understand this hypothesis? Is this some sort of trifling challenge over ‘proper’ semant...
by SpartanJKM
Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:53 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

Carolyn Willekes , From the Steppe to the Stable: Horses and Horsemanship in the Ancient World (2013), pp. 318-319, "...cavalry would only very rarely attack a massed infantry formation head on. The reasons for this are straightforward enough: basic equine behavior does not encourage a horse t...
by SpartanJKM
Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:59 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

I don't think Polyaenus' excerpt of 4.2.8 was necessarily a doublet of Frontinus' similar one at all (both of them would not tell us of both ruses, presumably, as they would be in the same chapter of the same figure, and that would be redundant), not because it would be below a member of the 'strata...
by SpartanJKM
Tue Jun 27, 2017 2:32 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

My apologies, Xenophon - I was a little impetuous in my last response. I am in total agreement with you: the ancient sources should by checked better, and thanks for opening my eyes to be more careful. I'm all for modern revisionism when it is well calculated, but on checking all the referenced anci...
by SpartanJKM
Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:18 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

...You really should check the sources rather than rely on secondary modern authors [such as the unreliable Richard Gabriel?]. As you can see below, there is no mention of a night attack, nor of who was involved and the only commander mentioned is Philip himself... I do check the sources (and they ...
by SpartanJKM
Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:27 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?
Replies: 122
Views: 94836

Re: Did Alexander command the PHALANX at Chaeronea?

Robert L. O'Connell , The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (2010), pp. 5-6, "...All we really have are words, preserved for us in the most haphazard fashion out of a much larger body of literature. So the study of ancient history is roughly analogous to scr...