04-19-2008, 05:15 AM
No, I am suggesting that just as there was a metal helmet which in shape resembled the 'pilos' cap (and IIRC these could be of felt or dogskin), and caps of that sort were seen as typically peloponnesian; that there also existed a helmet derived from a typical 'Boeotian' cap ( also possibly made of dogskin and/or felt), and that this became what we now call a 'Boeotian' helmet (recall also that there was a metal helmet version of the 'petassos' sun-hat as well )....and that although called by the name of the hat,like 'pilos' in the case of Spartan Hoplite's helmets, what Demosthenes is referring to is actually a metal helmet derived from Boeotian dogskin caps.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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