AH6058I Italo Corinthian Helmet (Iron) Review?

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Funnily enough,this helmet WAS based on an ancient helmet. It was found in Olympia and is one of the very few corinthian helmets with ear cut-outs. Of course they bear very little resemblance to the above helmet. It became so popular i suspect because of Connolly's work(not intentionally of course). He has painted an evollution tree of all ancient greek helmet types,and naturally,that corinthian with ear cutouts is depicted as the last evollution of the corinthian helmet, not mentioning that its frequency is so low(i can't think of a second example off the top of my head!)
Nowadays.peraps more than half corinthian helmets of re-enactors have ear cutouts,and this is only but one of the flaws.
Today there are far better helmets to buy,but not as low as 50 euros. For 100-150 you can get better though.
Khaire
Giannis