Mmm, it might be a good opportunity to consult some book of archaeology of war. Maybe I 've something about this, I can try to search. http://ermopoli.it/portale/images/Er...lies/leggo.gif
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Mmm, it might be a good opportunity to consult some book of archaeology of war. Maybe I 've something about this, I can try to search. http://ermopoli.it/portale/images/Er...lies/leggo.gif
I've read something about the composition of Etruscan army... Arjos, you talk about Greek hoplites; yes, in fact they adopted this type in archaic period (650-600 BC), probably influenced by Greek culture (one of the causes was the importation from Corinth of the famous Chigi vasehttp://rogerioscoupedumonde.files.wo...halanx-det.jpg). An interesting source is Tragliatella oinochoe, toohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiff...n/photostream/. Then they adopted the phalanx in 550-500 BC. Diodorus (XXIII 2) report that Romans learned to fight in a "phalanx-formation" by Etruscans. But I'm sorry, actually I don't have found anything about Etruscan army in IIIrd century. (Bibliography: L. Aigner Foresti, Aspetti della guerra presso gli Etruschi, pp. 97-98).Quote:
I can try to search
Ross Cowan's blog has an interesting essay concerning Etruscan warfare of the late 4th Century BC (http://rosscowan.wordpress.com/etruscans-ii/), in which he argues for pila-armed Etruscans fighting in 'manipular' fashion at the battle of Lake Vadimon 310/309 BC - but, as he quite frankly admits, 'other scholars believe [the battle] is fictitious, a couplet of the battle of 283 BC (Romans defeat an alliance of Boii and Etruscans)' and Livy - and/or his sources - may have made up the 'manipular' formation of the Etruscans,...
Thanks Lvcretivs for the interesting link.
So it seems a demonstration that Etruscans and Romans fought in a similar way in IIIrd century... I can still research something else. http://ermopoli.it/portale/images/Er...lies/leggo.gif
In the early third century BC, some etruscans mercenaries were fighting for Syracuse against Carthage...
I'm looking for some sources with their description...
...a thousand mercenaries and two hundred zeugippae from Etruria... (Diodorus Siculus 19, 106)
Either cavalry or heavy infantry (Zeugitas)
Do you know what cities of Etruria sent the armies to Syracusae?
And sorry, what does "zeugippae" means?
It doesn't mention cities, but it looks like it was more of an alliance (they sent 18 ships too)...
I don't know what Diodorus meant: the translator's note said that with zeugippae, he referred to cavalrymen who brought an extra horse; but also it could derive from zeugitai meaning a "high-middle class" infantry...