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According to Polybius, the marching camp of a typical consular army of 20,000 men would measure 2150 Roman feet square (c. 700 m × 700 m (2,300 ft × 2,300 ft) = c. 50 ha (120 acres)). [98] Along the perimeter, a ditch ( fossa ) would be excavated, and the spoil used to build an earthen rampart ( agger ) on the inside of the ditch.
The first online mention of Polybius is a coinop.org article alleged to have been created in 1998, which extends the legend by claiming possession of a ROM image file from the 1981 arcade machine, claiming to have played it, and on May 16, 2009, promising to bring future updates pending an investigatory flight to Kyiv, Ukraine.
Flamininus also took 5,000 prisoners. The Romans only lost between 700 and 750 men in the battle. [4] [7] [8] [9] [a] It is generally perceived that with the later Battle of Pydna, this defeat demonstrated the superiority of the Roman legion over the Macedonian phalanx. The phalanx, though very powerful head on, was not as flexible as the Roman ...
Polybius (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ b i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC.
The Seleucid army was the army of the Seleucid Empire, one of the numerous Hellenistic states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great.. As with the other major Hellenistic armies, the Seleucid army fought primarily in the Greco-Macedonian style, with its main body being the phalanx.
Sumerian phalanx-like formation c. 2400 BC, from detail of the victory stele of King Eannatum of Lagash over Umma, called the Stele of the Vultures. The phalanx (pl.: phalanxes or phalanges) [1] was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together.
Each phalanx consists of a central part, called the body, and two extremities. [5] The body is flat on either side, concave on the palmar surface, and convex on the dorsal surface. [6] Its sides are marked with rough areas giving attachment to fibrous sheaths of flexor tendons. It tapers from above downwards. [7]
The Macedonian phalanx was considered practically invulnerable from the front. Another phalanx could perhaps wear a phalanx down in a long battle from exhaustion, but this was far from guaranteed. The best way to defeat one was generally by one of a loss of morale from killing the enemy commander, breaking its formation, or outflanking it.