08-18-2010, 12:56 AM
Quote:All cultures developed shields independently from the neolithic period
By mid century B.C the shields had shield bosses or telamon (leather bauldric).
Herodotus credits the Carians with invention of porpax and antilave.
King Pheidon of Argos is credited to transformed the simple shield wall of the Homeric times into
a group of "offensive spearmen" moving in a block and crashing all in its path.
Then it kept evolving tillthe introduction of the sarissa.
Kind regards
Thank you Stefanos, interesting that the origin of the hoplite phalanx is attributed to Argive invention.
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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
