The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 440
or Athens, but no one could seriouslyexpect old Greece to succumb to this upstart without a struggle.For one thing, Macedon had not and never acquired a reallystrong fleet. But her army was certainly irresistible. Philip had learnt strategy at the feet of the ThebanEpaminondas. The army he created… … THE MACEDONIAN WORLDwere subsequently achieved. For the infantry his great in-vention was the phalanx. This was clearly a modificationof the deep formation invented by Epaminondas. It con-sisted of sixteen ranks armed with a spear 21 feet long.They stood in close order so that the points of the…
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