Quote Originally Posted by Skandinav View Post
We do not know anything about the phalanx of the germanic peoples other than it is described by Caesar when he was in Alsace fighting Ariovistus as "their ( the germanic tribes ) usual phalanx", which sounds as if it was widely used and could be interpreted as if they had a style of their own, but it must have shared a lot of characteristics with the hellenistic phalanx for him to label without further ado.
I am not sure about that, since the term phalanx could be used for any reasonably-ordered formation. The specific term for the Hellenistic pike phalanx was IIRC syntagmata, not phalanx.

Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
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