08-13-2009, 09:45 PM
Quote:The professor used the more modern term and Ferrill used the older term.
Hmmm, that's not the message you should have gotten from that thread. If anything it is the use of "hoplon" for shield that is passe. Most modern scholars recognize that "aspis,' specifically "argive aspis" is much more common and specific.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
