Legion Versus Phalanx : : the Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
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Preface -- Chronology -- Maps -- Part I: And in this corner...examining the legion and the phalanx -- Who would win in a fight? The eagle and the lion -- Not your father's phalanx: the legacy of Iphicrates -- Mules that kill: under the eagle of Rome -- Part II: Fight! the legion versus the phalanx in six battles -- Heraclea, 280 BC: Rome's first test -- Asculum, 279 BC: "One more such victory, and we are undone." -- Beneventum, 275 BC: Pyrrhus' last gasp -- Cynoscephalae, 197 BC: The legion triumphant -- Magnesia, 190 BC: No refuge for Hannibal -- Pydna, 168 BC: The fall of the Antigonids -- Legions and phalanxes.
"From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged to challenge them as masters of infantry battle" -- Front jacket flap.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Osprey Publishing, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 288 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781472828422
1472828429
SUBJECTS
Battles -- History.
Strategy -- History.
Infantry.
Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science -- History.
Rome -- History, Military.