07-06-2010, 09:46 PM
Quote:While on the subject of helmets... where does the idea that Theban hoplites wore the 'Boeotian' style helmet come from? Are there any primary sources to back this up?
Thanks for any help!
I can't help you on the first one, but on the second, a reference is made to the Plataeans depicted in the painting of the battle of Marathon from the Stoa Poikile in Demosthenes 59.94 which states that they wore Boeotian helmets. However, whether what the ancients called the Boeotian helmet can be taken as the helmet that we call Boeotian today is not entirely certain, see E. Jarva, "In search of Xenophon’s ideal helmet. An alternative view of the kranos boiotiourges," in Faravid 15 (1991): 33-81.
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
