Recreating a Greek Cavalryman

[John Conyard]

Military writers do seem to like to harp on about the good old days when more armour was worn and there was more discipline. But I've always felt Xenophon was trying to be more innovative based on his foreign adventures. I think his description of arm armour does sound very much like a manica, and less like the earlier plate armour.

Although I suspect Greek cavalry took ideas from their neighbours, and that there was a two-way exchange of information and equipment. So called techno-borrowings are not just a Roman innovation.