11-21-2007, 09:02 AM
Quote:OK. Herodotus does talk about units of Persians in heavy armour, though, and in his account Persian infantry mostly use the gerra. This is probably an over-simplification though!
I was just commenting that Gorelik's reconstruction is hypothetical. I agree that Persian heavy infantrymen most likely did carry gerrha, but we don't have any direct evidence for it.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
