Horsehair Crests

[Gaius Colletti]

Thanks Matt you've been a huge help. I definitely would have to choose something from ancient Greece. What is the most popular time period people like to re enact? Does it matter if your time period isn't congruent with others?

That's totally up to you, there is at least one Roman on this site who has parts of a kit that doesn't all date to the same period, because he doesn't plan to reenact and is just a collector. But know the reenactor community can be very unforgiving of unauthenticties, and rightfully so, as Hollywood has given people a false representation of the ancients and they do not want people further bastardizing the Greek panoply.

That said, some things don't change much, sandals, tunics (different types, but not much evolution), tube and yoke cuirass (linothorax/spolas), kopis swords (unless you get a later Spanish/Carthaginian design), sandals, aspis/hoplon (except for design, and I don't consider the Macedonian phalanx's shields the same type), really I think the helmet and cuirass are the biggest deciding factor. Now I am much more familiar with Greek history than specific parts of a kit, so feel free more learned Greeks to correct me if I have taken to many liberties.