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Until yesterday, my experience with Ancient reenactors had been pretty much limited to Early and Late Imperial Romans (luckily Republican Rome seems to slowly gain in interest). Granted, there were two or three Celts or Germans at the Xanten events I visited, but at least they belong in the era.

'Greeks' are still fairly rare on the ground and at present I only know of one group who do anything Hellenistic, the German group Hetairoi (please prove me wrong if there are more out there!). When I saw on their website they were having a practice weekend in sort-of-nearby Cologne, I contacted them to ask if I could come over and have a look. The Hetairoi were kind enough to answer positively and provided us with a map to a quiet field in between two halves of an enormous cemetary.

Having made it over there, the assembled Hetairoi were kind enough to don their kit despite the blazing sun (this 'northener' came home with a proper red neck, of course) and pose for us.

Say what you want about reenactors, but I can't think of anything better to get the look and feel of weapons and equipment. And I can tell you, the look and feel of a sarissa is huuuuge.

'Thracian Civil War' 'Macedonian Phalangites'

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