为什么希腊神话中的英雄在作战时喜欢把自己的矛扔出去？ 第1页

就像《三国演义》实际上反映了一些元朝军制那样，希腊神话中的战斗要素，许多也是基于神话繁荣的古典、古风时代背景的。比如，特洛伊战争的英雄们，居然把战车当做代步工具一样，而很少描述他们在战车上冲杀的场面，这就与迈锡尼时代的历史事实不符了。

而在希腊-罗马军制下，长矛主要是列阵刺杀和投掷两种用途。

在一对一决斗当中，长矛并不适合近距离肉搏。

The spear is the main weapon of the warriors of Homer's Iliad. The use of both a single thrusting spear and two throwing spears are mentioned. It has been suggested that two styles of combat are being described; an early style, with thrusting spears, dating to the Mycenaean period in which the Iliad is set, and, anachronistically, a later style, with throwing spears, from Homer's own Archaicperiod.[7]

In the 7th century BC, the Greeks evolved a new close-order infantry formation, the phalanx.[8] The key to this formation was the hoplite, who was equipped with a large, circular, bronze-faced shield (aspis) and a 7–9 ft (2.1–2.7 m) spear with an iron head and bronze butt-spike (doru).[9] The hoplite phalanx dominated warfare among the Greek City States from the 7th into the 4th century BC.

这是wikipedia的spear词条节选。

不难看出，其实这种长矛并不适合一对一肉搏，否则很容易被刀剑斧锤这类武器折断。