08-11-2007, 12:19 AM
Makedonian peltai were circular, and made of wood and were rimless ( to allow two handed grip of the sarissa)
A thin bronze facing, some 26 inches in diameter from a pelte was found at Pergamum (illustrated on p.78 Connolly's 'Greece and Rome at war )
The argyraspides = 'silvershields' probably got their name from having a silver facing in lieu of bronze ( there was another phalanx unit in a Makedonian army called chalkaspides = bronze shields.)
A thin bronze facing, some 26 inches in diameter from a pelte was found at Pergamum (illustrated on p.78 Connolly's 'Greece and Rome at war )
The argyraspides = 'silvershields' probably got their name from having a silver facing in lieu of bronze ( there was another phalanx unit in a Makedonian army called chalkaspides = bronze shields.)
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff