07-23-2006, 10:24 AM
Obviously, you guys that making this armors, doing a serious researching...
I'm not saying "I'm right" & "You're wrong" here...
I'm specialize myself in Classic Age, durring "Persian Wars"; I'm ALSO, though, likes and reading about any other warfare Age, like th "Bronze's Age".
My thought/theory about the "Dendron" panoply, is that is "similar" with the full-plate Medival Knights' armor; that armor ALSO was a full-body protection one, but these knights ALSO used shield as well...
Except auxiliary/skirmish troops, I never read or see in painting/sculptures troops NOT using shields! Maybe I'm wrong about the "Wall-shield"; maybe they used that "half-moon Aspis", like in this famous pottery-art of "Bronze-Age", showing full-covered Achaean troops, wearing horned-helmets and holding "half-moon" shields too.
Like "Zenodoros" said, Homer is not ACCURATED to take him TOTALY as a "guide". The man lived AFTER the Trojan War, he wasn't READING his poem (he was singing it from his mind, like medival bard - and we know that bards... "modified" their song, in any NEW audience)...
In "Iliad", in the rhapsody that says about the NEW Achilles' panoply, it says about the cuirass/helmet/spear... and OF COURSE the suberb shield.
Achilles WAS NOT fighting as a footsoldier and yet, he had that GREAT new shield...
Anyway...
Regards.
I'm not saying "I'm right" & "You're wrong" here...
I'm specialize myself in Classic Age, durring "Persian Wars"; I'm ALSO, though, likes and reading about any other warfare Age, like th "Bronze's Age".
My thought/theory about the "Dendron" panoply, is that is "similar" with the full-plate Medival Knights' armor; that armor ALSO was a full-body protection one, but these knights ALSO used shield as well...
Except auxiliary/skirmish troops, I never read or see in painting/sculptures troops NOT using shields! Maybe I'm wrong about the "Wall-shield"; maybe they used that "half-moon Aspis", like in this famous pottery-art of "Bronze-Age", showing full-covered Achaean troops, wearing horned-helmets and holding "half-moon" shields too.
Like "Zenodoros" said, Homer is not ACCURATED to take him TOTALY as a "guide". The man lived AFTER the Trojan War, he wasn't READING his poem (he was singing it from his mind, like medival bard - and we know that bards... "modified" their song, in any NEW audience)...
In "Iliad", in the rhapsody that says about the NEW Achilles' panoply, it says about the cuirass/helmet/spear... and OF COURSE the suberb shield.
Achilles WAS NOT fighting as a footsoldier and yet, he had that GREAT new shield...
Anyway...
Regards.
aka Romilos
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
