Hoplites- How should they have fought?

[hellenes]

Alexander did not introduce the phalanx to the Greeks, but he did use them better than the Greeks did before his time. Alexander reformed the Phalanx to make it better, and thus beating the Persians was easier.

Sorry, I don't feel like going into detail I'm lazy right now...

Alexander III was a Hellene himself so arguing who introduced what in the same ethnic group is moot...

Hellenes

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Alexander III was a Hellene himself so arguing who introduced what in the same ethnic group is moot...

Hellenes

One can say that Gorgias introduced rhetoric in its most common sense to the Greeks, as he came from Sicily to do it, but that doesn't mean that anyone is saying he wasn't Greek too. Jeez. Get over this.

[hellenes]

One can say that Gorgias introduced rhetoric in its most common sense to the Greeks, as he came from Sicily to do it, but that doesn't mean that anyone is saying he wasn't Greek too. Jeez. Get over this.

Sorry Teleklos but if one is part of a group and introduces something then the group has it almost at the same time.
If he said "to the REST of the Greeks" that would be it but (even if you dont accept it) most of the western world still separates Makedonians from the Hellenes almost automatically...

Hellenes

[antisocialmunky]

Alexander III was a Hellene himself so arguing who introduced what in the same ethnic group is moot...

Hellenes

Technically Alexander's dad, Phillip, created the new army and developped the fighting methods. Alexander was just knew the army intimately(NO, not that way..) enough to know how to employ it. Its limitations and abilities. The Alexander's Macedonian phalanx line would sometimes almost been broken by the time Alexander rode in to save the day. Gaugumela and the battle when the phalanxes were subjected to rough terrain are two examples of that.