User blog comment:Urbancommando77/Hannibal Barca vs Alexander the great/@comment-3018037-20111120040229/@comment-2006360-20111120132412

Actually, all pictures of Alexander particularly his mosaic at the Battle of Issus, show him without a shield. The Companion Cavalry, his elite force who followed him into battle, didn't carry shields, but Alexander's other soldiers would carry them. The pikemen would have small shields, because they needed both hands to carry their sarissae, but the allied hoplites would have those famous Aspis shields.