Posts: 115
Threads: 12
Joined: May 2005
Reputation:
0
Not quite yet in panoply... I'll try in the future, though, but it looks like it's very difficult! Maybe the next party... ;-) )
Khairete!
Episkopos P. Lilius Frugius Simius Excalibor, :. V. S. C., Pontifex Maximus, Max Disc Eccl
David S. de Lis - my blog: <a class="postlink" href="http://praeter.blogspot.com/">http://praeter.blogspot.com/
Posts: 2,032
Threads: 41
Joined: May 2002
Reputation:
0
What kind of party is it gonna be? :roll:
Ivan Perelló
[size=150:iu1l6t4o]Credo in Spatham, Corvus sum bellorum[/size]
Posts: 1,962
Threads: 106
Joined: Apr 2003
Reputation:
7
That mosaic is roman in the hellenistic style (100 bC aprox). Depicts the Ifigenia's sacrifice. Because of that, the people are depicted in greek fashion.
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation:
0
Quote: http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:
This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener.....
hock:
Quote:There is a greek re-enactor team in Spain
That cut away cat shield is gorgeous.....!
regards
Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Posts: 8,090
Threads: 505
Joined: Jan 2005
Reputation:
0
Quote:Comerus Gallus Romus:9nuhqdmz Wrote:http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:
This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:
Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation:
0
Quote:Arthes:huakg5ir Wrote:Comerus Gallus Romus:huakg5ir Wrote:http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:
This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:
Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?
I wondered exactly the same thing..... :?:
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation:
0
Quote:Tarbicus:ez0e4llq Wrote:Arthes:ez0e4llq Wrote:Comerus Gallus Romus:ez0e4llq Wrote:http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:
This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:
Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?
Tarbicus & Arthes, yes look at this plate example, the man from his back:
A kind of dredlocks, perhaps representing serpens as the Amazon Gorgon.
look at his shield.
http://img220.imageshack.us/full.php?im ... y043iz.jpg
my first impression was 'it's a female' but maybe not... :?
The design on the shield looks Persian..you see that sort of depiction on masks and stuff from the 'East'
The scythians were also described as having 'flowing tangled windblown hair' and on close inspection of some engravings, sometimes it looks like 'dreads' or braids...
I had never thought about it being connected with Medusa....
PS The coloured Chalcidian helm on [url:ez0e4llq]http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/war/Armor.htm[/url] - wow.....
regards
Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation:
0
and what is even stranger given the colours....was I did this on 28th October..
hock:
and look at this [url:uriv6quk]http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o34060.html[/url]
I think I will become Chalcidian......drooling....!!!!
regards
Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation:
0
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Posts: 4,029
Threads: 90
Joined: May 2005
Reputation:
0
Nice work Cristina.
As for the Shield in the illustration. The Gorgoneio marks this guy as a member of the SPARTA mora- "A Spartiatis". Patron god was Chalkioikos Athena, hence the Gorgoneio. The illustration is based on the "parade vase".
Hair were long in the Archaic Era (750-600 B.C.) nt only for the Spartans but for the warrior elite in general. Possiblut hehoplites appeared on parade and religious pomps in a more "artistic" way than in battles.
Its an interpretetaion but still speculative.
Kind regards
Stefanos