Friday, February 14, 2014

What is keeping me so busy

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I mentioned in the past that I work with termites.  If any are interested, this is the group I work with.  My current Job is to go to India ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Storm of Spears and Press of Shields

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In the special battle of Marathon anniversary issue of Ancient Warfare magazine I published an article title The Storm of Spears and Press o...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

A discussion of hoplites on youtube- my 15 minutes of fame, stretched to 27

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Yes, I have been away for a long time.  Luckily I have good reason.  I had to focus on the six-legged Myrmidons so as to finish my Ph. D. th...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

What exactly is my field of expertise?

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Every now and then I get a comment that I feel would be better answered as a post so that any others with a similar question can easily find...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Reconciling the Storm of Spears with the Press of Shields

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I've just written a long article on the mechanics of hoplite battle for the Marathon Special issue of Ancient Warfare magazine ( http://...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

"Reinstating the Hoplite": Adam Schwartz and the failure of the orthodox view of othismos

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A few months back, I promised a review of Adam Schwartz's "Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic an...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Sword use in Othismos

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In an earlier post, I wrote that hoplites in the crowd of othismos could strike with short swords over their shields into the necks of their...