Macedonian fashion = pike phalanx. So 2000 pike phalanx here, and if you add 6000 more Spartans that's 8000.After Antigonus had taken Tegea by siege, and had surprised Orchomenus and Mantineia, Cleomenes, now reduced to the narrow confines of Laconia, set free those of the Helots who could pay down five Attic minas (thereby raising a sum of five hundred talents), armed two thousand of them in Macedonian fashion as an offset to the White Shields of Antigonus, and planned an undertaking which was great and entirely unexpected.
Last edited by Azathoth; 08-16-2009 at 00:12.
Last edited by Phalanx300; 08-16-2009 at 16:08.
Uh-huh, those were two separate instances. Ok.
I was agreeing with you; sorry if I sounded sarcastic.Yes it were, yet where does it say then that the Spartan Phalanx numbered 6000 before that?
The 6000 Spartans at Sellasia of which were 2000 previous Helots.
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