Chalkaspides

Chalkaspides: The Chalkaspides (Greek: Χαλκάσπιδες "Bronze Shields"), made up one of the two probable corps of the Antigonid Macedonian phalanx in the Hellenistic period, with the Leukaspides ("White Shields") forming the other.

See also

Argyraspides

Further reading

Plutarch. Aemilius Paullus, c. 20
- Sulla, c. 16 & c. 19

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