Question about reenactors

[Lýsandros]

While we can only speculate about colors used in the greek hoplite's panoply (due to the fact that most art is uncolored or using variations of black and red, black and yellow), red was a very cheap colour available to anyone. There is no reason to not accept a white/red checker box. The world of Ancient Greece was far from colorless, on the contrary - it was quiet the opposite! Ancient Greeks loved colours, both in their cilivian clothing, decorations or armor. Please do your research before lookind down upon the work of reenactors. Please, examine the following vase paintings, they will open your eyes in terms of patterns. This is just from a quick google search, but all images I have posted are actual remains from Ancient Greece.

The helmets you have posted are several hundred years older than some of those on the firrst picture and definitely belonged to a wealthy man. Helmet types and shapes varied between generations and so did the decoration.







This one is a bit bigger, just including a link:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Museum.jpg

That would be one arm, please