he first Assyrian cavalrymen appear on the palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) from Nimrud. These cavalrymen were represented in pairs:
The evolution of the Assyrian cavalry
The Hellenistic Armies Of The Third Century BC
The armies of the Hellenistic period were quite different from the earlier armies of the eastern Mediterranean. Initially, the various autonomous Greek cities continued to rely on hoplite phalanx militias, but the gradual dependence and, finally, the