- A
hypaspist (Gr****: Ὑπασπιστής "shield bearer" or "shield covered") is a squire, man at arms, or "shield carrier". In Homer,
Deiphobos advances "ὑπασπίδια"...
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regular forced marches. The
Hypaspists (Hypaspistai) were the
elite arm of the
Macedonian infantry. The word '
hypaspists'
translates into
English as 'shield-bearers'...
- Left, a
Macedonian infantryman,
possibly a
hypaspist,
equipped with an
aspis shield and
wearing a
linothorax cuir**** and
Thracian helmet; bas
relief from...
- have
consisted of
about 24,000
heavy infantry (9,000 phalangites, 3,000
hypaspists and 7,000
allied and 5,000
mercenary Gr**** hoplites), 13,000
light infantry...
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carried silver-plated shields,
hence their name. The
original unit were
hypaspists serving in the army of
Alexander the Great.
During the Wars of the Diadochi...
- of
Alexander the Great. He was a
hypaspist, and
commanded other hypaspists,
being described as the
foremost hypaspist officer after Neoptolemus. He served...
-
taxeis of
phalangites of
about 1,500 men and
three quiliarchies of 1000
hypaspists. It is
necessary to add an
undetermined number of
archers and
other light...
- 12,000 and
included the Foot
Companions and a
smaller group of
elite hypaspists. The
light infantry totalled 1,000 and
contained archers and
elite Agrianian...
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killed at the
siege of Halicarn****us, 334 BC,
commanding two
taxeis of
Hypaspists,
those of
Adaeus and Timander. W
Heckel believes that this
Ptolemy was...
- with the help of many
mercenary generals. His
forces consisted of 3,000
Hypaspists under Eurylochus the
Magnesian (the Agema), 2,000
peltasts under Socrates...
