When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...

The Battle of Pydna was the second major clash between the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion. The first, Cynoscephalae, in 197 BCE, saw the phalanx outmaneuvered and defeated by the more ...

While individually less protected than the hoplite, the Macedonian phalanx formed a strong ... followed was one of the most ...