THE ‘MYTH’ OF THE PHALANX: BATTLE FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL INTERACTION
-
Published:2020-03-04
Issue:
Volume:66
Page:1-28
-
ISSN:1750-2705
-
Container-title:The Cambridge Classical Journal
-
language:en
-
Short-container-title:Camb. class. j.
Author:
Chiriţoiu Daniel Alexandru
Abstract
The article will discuss the importance of the phalanx as a way to point out cultural links and cultural competition between Greeks and Romans. It will argue that there is a wider discourse in military literature on the phalanx as a cultural commodity, by both historians and authors of ‘military manuals’, each author building on the arguments of the other, and that the Taktika of Aelian and Arrian are a key link in understanding this discourse in the context of the second century AD.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Classics
Reference73 articles.
1. Chiriţoiu, D. A. (2017) ‘Commanding texts: knowledge-ordering, identity construction and ethics in “military manuals” of the Roman Empire’, PhD thesis, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
2. Wees, H. van (2013) ‘Farmers and holplites: models of historical development’ in Kagan and Viggiano (2013a) 222–55.
3. Cultural Politics in Polybiuss Histories