01-10-2011, 05:47 PM
To return to the O.T., I have placed the book in my wish list at Amazon, I have two books already on order and I will get around to this one eventually. I doubt if the authors have any viable evidence for the 'black cloaks' or the use of Boeotian shields at Thermoplylae, but I would not necessarily discount the entire book (especially without having read it) over this.
Not wishing to derail the thread further, but on the subject of the Boeotian shield, there is an image in the G.H. Chase book, which is from a vase/krater? painting of what appears to be a typical round aspes, but with the Boeotian style 'cut-outs' in the sides of the shield. I believe one of the members of Stefanos' group has a similar shield with a crescent moon device. Could this type of shield be what the authors are referring to? [attachment=0:3ic6idpr]<!-- ia0 Boeotian 001.jpg<!-- ia0 [/attachment:3ic6idpr]
Not wishing to derail the thread further, but on the subject of the Boeotian shield, there is an image in the G.H. Chase book, which is from a vase/krater? painting of what appears to be a typical round aspes, but with the Boeotian style 'cut-outs' in the sides of the shield. I believe one of the members of Stefanos' group has a similar shield with a crescent moon device. Could this type of shield be what the authors are referring to? [attachment=0:3ic6idpr]<!-- ia0 Boeotian 001.jpg<!-- ia0 [/attachment:3ic6idpr]
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
