Orthodoxy and Hopiltes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9330140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G L Cawkwel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 375-389 |
| Publication date | 1989-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800037447 |
| OpenAlex | W2007267193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 5 |
In Philip of Macedon (1978) (pp. 150f.), as part of a general survey of the development of the art of war in Classical Greece, I briefly adumbrated a view of the nature of hoplite fighting. It was not the conventional one, of which the following statement of Adcock in The Greek and Macedonian Art of War (1957) p. 4 is fairly representative: The effectiveness of the phalanx depends in part on skill in fighting by those in the front rank, and in part on thephysical and moral support of the lines behind them. The two opposing phalanxes meet each otherwith clash of shield on shield and blow of spear against spear. Their momentum is increased by the impetus of the charge that precedes their meeting. If the first clash is not decisive by the superior weight and thrust of the one phalanx over the other, the fighting goes on. The laterranks supply fighters as those before them fall. At last one side gains the upper hand. Then the other phalanx breaks and takes to flight and the battle is won and lost
Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Front (military · Macedonian · Orthodoxy · Phalanx · Spear · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · History · Mechanical Engineering
Warfare in ancient literature
Military forces
Battle
Warfare and the state
Reconstructing ancient warfare
Military forces
War and society
Warfare and the state
War
International relations
International relations
Battle
War
The modern historiography of ancient warfare
War and society
Thucydides and Topography
The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite
The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare
War/Truth
Roman military equipment in the 4th century BC
Élites, élitisme et communauté dans la polis archaïque
Elites, Elitism, and Community in the Archaic Polis
Some Remarks on the Five Criteria of Democracy
Rewriting the Just War Tradition
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1920 - 2022 (103) |
| Highly cited | No |