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Spartan panoply at Thermopylae
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(11-03-2015, 10:28 AM)JoshoB Wrote: ...  muscled cuirasses, as mentioned earlier, were not used until later in the fifth century BC.

Could you elaborate?  I have usually read it claimed that the muscled cuirass dates to the late Archaic, though I won't claim to have scholarly citations for that.
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Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Diomed - 07-07-2015, 05:38 PM
Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Doc - 07-09-2015, 02:43 AM
Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Vindex - 07-12-2015, 06:23 PM
Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Goce - 07-14-2015, 04:26 AM
RE: Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by JoshoB - 11-03-2015, 10:28 AM
RE: Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Dan D'Silva - 11-05-2015, 02:56 PM
RE: Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by JoshoB - 11-05-2015, 10:14 PM
RE: Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by JoshoB - 11-07-2015, 12:22 AM
RE: Spartan panoply at Thermopylae - by Romilos Lfc Fronimides - 08-12-2016, 01:01 PM

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