02-02-2018, 01:57 AM
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, Patrick! There is no specific source for the lions, but they seem within the realm of possibility, and the lions are derived from a number of depictions I have seen in the past.
Yes, we stewed over the descriptions of armour in the Iliad over at the Bronze Age Center for quite some time.
Here is the cuirass portion of my Achilles panoply, made by Jeffrey Hildebrandt, who also made the Agamemnon cuirass for Dan H. I'll be making the shield and helmet, and have a good pair of greaves I will tin.
The Hildebrandt cuirass:
![[Image: 8409727468_c5c1976eea_z.jpg]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8514/8409727468_c5c1976eea_z.jpg)
I have pauldrons for it too, from Jeffrey!
Yes, we stewed over the descriptions of armour in the Iliad over at the Bronze Age Center for quite some time.
Here is the cuirass portion of my Achilles panoply, made by Jeffrey Hildebrandt, who also made the Agamemnon cuirass for Dan H. I'll be making the shield and helmet, and have a good pair of greaves I will tin.
The Hildebrandt cuirass:
I have pauldrons for it too, from Jeffrey!
Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius Flav
