07-09-2006, 11:07 PM
If you talking about Lacedaimonians only, in the centuries of their mighty power/glory (5th-4th BC), they worn/had:
a. ONLY "Kodonoschemous" full-Bronze cuirass
b. no footwear at all
c. beard without moustache (the old-fashion Hellenic style)
d. long-long hair (braid-style and bundled in the top of the head and the edges under the helmet - a nice trick to protect the head from the helmet)
e. red wool cloaks (NEVER during in battle of course!)
f. red wool tunics
g. "one-piece" (without straps) bronze greaves
h. sword, of course (with "Telamona" soulder-strap; no belts of course!)
i. spear
j. "Hoplon" shield
... and their "wooden rings" (in battle) around their necks or elsewhere; these were the Spartan's... "US tag", for identify them if their corpses were in bad shape (they were writting in a piece of wooden ring their names and they broke one piece of it - leaving back in their camp, so the survivors would easily match the pieces...)
Hope I helped enough...
a. ONLY "Kodonoschemous" full-Bronze cuirass
b. no footwear at all
c. beard without moustache (the old-fashion Hellenic style)
d. long-long hair (braid-style and bundled in the top of the head and the edges under the helmet - a nice trick to protect the head from the helmet)
e. red wool cloaks (NEVER during in battle of course!)
f. red wool tunics
g. "one-piece" (without straps) bronze greaves
h. sword, of course (with "Telamona" soulder-strap; no belts of course!)
i. spear
j. "Hoplon" shield
... and their "wooden rings" (in battle) around their necks or elsewhere; these were the Spartan's... "US tag", for identify them if their corpses were in bad shape (they were writting in a piece of wooden ring their names and they broke one piece of it - leaving back in their camp, so the survivors would easily match the pieces...)
Hope I helped enough...
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 -
