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Battle of
Pydna in 168 BC,
presumably from the
defeated chalkaspides. The term
Chalkaspides is
found in
other ****enistic armies, as well. The historian...
-
divided into two
separate corps, the
Chalkaspides ("bronze-shields") and
Leukaspides ("white-shields"). The
Chalkaspides were
probably more
prepared for prolonged...
- 000
Chrysaspides (Gr****: Χρυσάσπιδες 'Golden-Shields') and the 5,000
Chalkaspides ('Bronze-Shields').
Little else is
known specifically about them, although...
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single group of
chalkaspides.
Regardless of what the "White Shields"
referred to, them
being a less
prestigious supplement to the
chalkaspides is
implied by...
- used
terms such as
Chrysaspides (Gr****s: Χρυσάσπιδες 'gold-shields'),
Chalkaspides ('bronze-shields') and
Leukaspides ('white-shields') to
denote formations...
- 000 men. They
fought alongside the
phalanx pikemen,
divided now into
chalkaspides (bronze shield) and
leukaspides (white shield) regiments. The Antigonid...
- army of
Pontus adopted the
Macedonian phalanx; it
fielded a
corps of
Chalkaspides ('bronze-shields'), for
example against Sulla at the
Battle of Chaeronea...
-
fought alongside the
phalanx pikemen,
divided now into 'bronze shield' (
chalkaspides) and 'white shield' (leukaspides) regiments, up
until the very end of...
- gave the city
bronze shields to form a
contingent of epil****i
armed as
chalkaspides ('Bronze-Shields'). By the end of the 3rd
century BC the thyreophoros...
- turtle-eater) ἀργυρὰσπιδες
argyraspides (wiki Argyraspides)
chrysaspides and
chalkaspides (golden and bronze-shielded) δράμις
dramis a
Macedonian bread (Thessalian...
