Other innovations were tactical, like those devised by Epaminondas, which gave Thebes supremacy for a time. The phalanx formation was a mass of armored men bristling with spikes, and opposing it a ...

This formation was known as a ‘phalanx’. A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment. Enemy soldiers saw only ...

In military history, a phalanx was the term for a tightly-packed infantry formation, in which each member was able to protect the adjacent one with their sizable shields. It created a defense that ...