Xyston
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The xyston, was a type of a long thrusting spear in ancient Greece. It measured about 3.5 to 4.25 m long and was probably held by the cavalryman with both hands. It had a wooden shaft and a spear-poin
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Sarissa
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The sarissa or sarisa was a long spear or pike about 5 to 7 meters in length. It was introduced by Philip II of Macedon and was used in his Macedonian phalanxes as a replacement for the earlier dory,
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The Alexander Mosaic, a surviving ancient artistic depiction that probably depicts massed sarissas.
3rd century BCE art of a warrior carrying a spear from the Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia—possibly a sarissa