Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Answers podcast.

I'm Jasper Ortiz. I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

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And today we're going to be dealing with another interesting question

where maybe we have to run a stopwatch or something like a chess clock, Marie.

I'll talk very fast.

Oh, okay.

Celtic Ace, one of our new patrons, asks, oh, that gives me a nice segue.

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Has a question about the phalanx. What would be the possible reason that style of warfare came about?

It seems strange to use such a formation against infantry.

Plus why a nine foot spear, so I guess we're talking about the later phalanx.

I picture two phalanxes were to be fighting what looks like,

would look like two bucks or stags fighting. Well, Marie. Well, there you go. So,

short, fast answer. The development of heavy infantry warfare in ancient Greece,

obviously had developed the hop-like phalanx. In the early 4th century BC,

there are multiple developments which are A, the deepening of the phalanx, the Thebans especially,

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