02-05-2012, 02:16 AM
And who says there were not more Greek soldiers called Miltiades ?
If the inscription would have said:
Miltiades the Strategos has dedicated this after the battle of...........
it would be a different story. Now we only know that there was someone called Miltiades who dedicated a helmet at some stage in the history of the sanctuary of Olympos....
This is about as strange as deciding a silver inlaid disc found in the Netherlands is to be attested to the Roman officer Gaius Aquilius Proculus who was mentioned by Tacitus in connection to the Batavian revolt, as if there were not more people named so and so....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiekpubliek/3853900622/
![[Image: 3853900622_248f390f5b_s.jpg]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2664/3853900622_248f390f5b_s.jpg)
M.VIB.M.
If the inscription would have said:
Miltiades the Strategos has dedicated this after the battle of...........
it would be a different story. Now we only know that there was someone called Miltiades who dedicated a helmet at some stage in the history of the sanctuary of Olympos....
This is about as strange as deciding a silver inlaid disc found in the Netherlands is to be attested to the Roman officer Gaius Aquilius Proculus who was mentioned by Tacitus in connection to the Batavian revolt, as if there were not more people named so and so....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiekpubliek/3853900622/
M.VIB.M.
Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
