085 Antigonid Macedon - Storm Clouds In The West
The Hellenistic Age Podcast
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Philipoaman and the Achaian War
Philipoaman was dismayed to find out that the fighting prowess of the Achaians had withered since the war against Cleomines. The infantry had finally made the transition from the now archaic hoplite into a Macedonian-style pike phalanx, and the cavalry was re-drilled into a more effective unit. This reform could not have come in a better time, for they now were about to face an attack from Sparta in 208. Just after the Alyian campaign in late 209, the Dardanians invaded Macedonia and took nearly 20,000 captives back to Illyria. In spite of Philip marching halfway across Greece in only 10 days to try
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