11-09-2006, 05:20 AM
Quote:Very good work.
been a long-bladed hopilte-type sword.
It's very clear from Xenophon's "On Horsemanship" and from contemporary evidence that the Xiphos was rarely used by cavalrymen. The kopis was a much better slashing weapon, and cavalrymen would be slashing with swords most of the time anyway.
Quote:By the time of Alexander the Skythian saddle would be completely known to Greece. The saddle was 2 rolls of felt, one in front of him and the other behind the rider. One Kourgan tomp revealed wooden reinforcements on one 4th century saddle.
Only there are no contemporary depictions of such a saddle being used by Macedonian cavalry well into the first century BC. It's very clear that cavalrymen stuck to the Iranian style shabrack.
And for those of you wondering about prodromoi using xysta, see the Kinch tomb painting.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian