12-20-2005, 11:27 AM
Might I interject on this speculation, As many of you know i have been looking at armour and while this has been going on i have seen many representations of shields and i agree with Connolly when he says
"The Dipylon shield is almost certainly a direct desendant of the Mycenaean figure-eight type which disappears from art soon after 1400 BC." (Greece and Rome at War p. 51).
Regardless of the date differences between the Trojan war and Homers writing down of the orally transfered epic, the archaealogical evidence suggests that the figure 8 shield had been out of use for some 200 years by the time of the Trojan war.
"The Dipylon shield is almost certainly a direct desendant of the Mycenaean figure-eight type which disappears from art soon after 1400 BC." (Greece and Rome at War p. 51).
Regardless of the date differences between the Trojan war and Homers writing down of the orally transfered epic, the archaealogical evidence suggests that the figure 8 shield had been out of use for some 200 years by the time of the Trojan war.
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