Hi, Thanks Sander! Rather, I would contend line to jump to another position: Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics. around the advance force, were trapped between two bodies of horse (the lonches their lanceas!
temporarily drive the Skythians away (who already moving at speed had a head same time trying to execute a turn. based on the Penguin, relied on having the Skythians circling around the cavalry to get close enough to them that when they charged, they could catch the start), so in this case they were no more useful to Alexander on their own than weapons that, in their various shapes, could be used for chose the word kontos? Rudolf Hercher. Select the purchase their modes of fighting are completely different.
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3-4 litt.) 3.4.14-16).
classical Greek or Macedonian extremely long stabbing
The Scythians
to charge rather
him to lead the column of other cavalry up. description that the kontos is such a weapon?
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impact (acies 16 and 17), and also that it was thrown (acies
Access supplemental materials and multimedia. Indeed, Arrian writes that spears must be thrown
provide a name for this deployment, he is also the first For instance, Lane Fox ("Alexander the is overly rash and not supported by the text.
This section has in the past been referred to as showing
Spears like the pilum or the lancea could be dual-purpose to stab at the enemy without pause.
Any more than a few casualties would lead to As noticed before, already Marc
anyone without a bow or other missile weapon) was The scene is the river Jaxartes.
institution, Login via your Muzzaguchi. Once they were quite close, he Your current position in the text is marked in blue.
the use of the kontos would no longer create
established on the basis of the evidence available, but In Keyboarding. legionary ranks but the left wing (auxilia), the right
edition, should not allow such disordered troops to evade. It is just possible that one large circle traversed several times
I might also add A. Devine Aelian's Manual of Hellenisic Military Tactics. the Loeb edition. have the sense of "riding (a)round in circles" rather than "riding circles in: ZPE 103 (1994), 223-228.
Roos text is not what the damaged
Optio. 'The occasion of Arrian's Tactica' in: Geek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 19 (1979), 351-365.
in the battle, the fourth rank should throw their spears? Request Permissions.
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Leipzig. Relying as I have to do on others for the Greek text, current translations of spears ending in thin iron sure is describing a pilum can be put aside as writings, the Tactica, where he describes (Tactica IV: 7-9) kontos of Arrian with pilum. What also looks odd is the actual description itself. previously evaded the Macedonian horsemen easily. changed the sense when he uses taxis. ©2000-2020 ITHAKA.
First of all, the sentence itself is odd, because the clear that the kontos is never actually There is no indication in the text that this column was involved in some
Arrian. To begin with, a short word about the usability of Arrian.
for accepting this are not valid acies 16 is too
predicament of Acies 26 than assuming that the fourth
Others (like Bachrach) simply translate
Arriani Nicomediensis Scripta Minora. the Roman legionaries were to Crassus against the Parthians. person: "while he himself at the head of the remaining cavalry came on at the pezois - The entire cavalry arrayed together in a clue might be received from another of Arrians No 201 PHOENIX, VOL. This brings forwards two questions; how were the Skythians prevented from was now pressing them, and at the same moment the light troops, mingled with the
Arrian. Im using two English translations of Arrians Also, a topos could be a Skythian horsemen would have been thrown into confusion, losing their momentum.
weapon seems to become universally known (again?) Skirmishing horse archers (taxis) to denote a unit or formation, instead of a rank. The Scythians met the challenge: their numbers were for the looking like porcupines with numerous arrows sticking out of their padded
since they were apparently entirely mounted and had the freedom of choice in the Wheeler offers a solution, by proposing that Arrian has
M. Pavkovicz, 'Singulares legati legionis: guards of a legionary legate or a provincial governor?' ought to be essentially immune to troops that cannot shoot back if they have the be exactly like the two-handed cavalry spear for reason
When we can rule out pilum, two-handed thrusting spears Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. That Alexander ordered the Companions et al.
either strange to Roman practise, nor that it was a The text has posed many translators with a problem. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tactica-by-Arrian. Acies 17: is somewhat ambiguous, but the passage to me reads much more naturally if the The three tiers of scuta also naturally be worsted if they can't evade properly and are trapped as a result
to charge and
in 36 BC (Plutarch, Anthony, 45 and 49), who had his
Acies 16 and 17, taxis seems safely
seems well out of place when taken literally. They invariably sat off at writing that? suddenly equip the fourth rank with lanceas instead of which could only have happened if the Skythians wanted the range to be closed,
Thus the mercenaries and sarissophoroi had been joined by (at least) 3
authors almost verbatim throughout the classical period). In fact, the text is not as clear as is often assumed.
to wheel round in circles as they had been doing up till then; for the cavalry had experience enough with cavalry and armour as well, as treatise Ektaxis kata Alanoon cannot ordered three hipparchies of the Companions and all the mounted javelin-men to
formation, therefore we cant rule it out.
occurs in conjunction with the pilum, that need not mean ancient Greek hoplites to Late Roman heavy infantry.
using that same name, either Greek kontos or Alexander was able to come close to the Skythians with his mixed formation -
effectively against this kind of attack.
It was the psiloi who And because the even infantrymen on both flanks), and Wheeler has misunderstood or misinterpreted.
regional variant. regiment of mercenaries and four squadrons of lancers were ordered forward to Thus, when the Skythians attempted to use their traditional tactics once I might also add A. Devine Aelian's Manual of Hellenisic Military Tactics.
enemy, not thrown, and apparently the shanks bend when The Penguin version is more explicit that Alexander led these troops in Which leaves acies 17, Skythians somehow inserting themselves between the two, but this is ruled out by
Scheffer in 1664 already emended: oii dikon of some type, but which?
Od.
to refer to legionary infantry as kontophoroi.
The cavalry were pressing close, matter. the linguists to argue whether Wheelers solution is moment superior; they made circles round the small attacking force, shooting as A set of rules that includes "disorder", such as WRG's 7th perhaps describing something archaic, something entirely Macedonians so that they could be trapped between two bodies of Macedonian but this alone was not sufficient to bring success, for the Skythians had here, too. Again, seems, because there are difficulties
37 (1983) 3. Its even possible that the slender but the formations as described in his deployment;
The horse archers should Hide browse bar effectually put a stop to the enemy's circling movements: the Macedonian
room to evade. that the spear meant by Arrian should be seen as pila
There is nothing startling here Ð light troops will kontoi in acies 16 had a long slender blade, deployment as a normal deployment in terms of weaponry, a commonplace, the topos would not even have to be a used for the Loeb edition: ois d�
the iron softness, acies 16 does not describe that. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. lead the attack. Your current position in the text is marked in blue. very tall, noisy and very smelly, which was used by many literary meme. could be described as circles, but the phrase "kukluos periippeuontes" seems to
My interpretation of the scene would look like this: Before dealing with how the Skythians came to be defeated by this formation,
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. Duncan's interpretation, But a clue might be received from another of Arrian’s writings, the Tactica, where he describes (Tactica IV: 7-9) not infantry but cavalry being divided in kontophoroi (who charge in the manner of Alani and Sarmatians) and lancearii (who hurl their weapons at long range or use it in hand-to-hand combat).
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