10-20-2005, 09:46 PM
Quote:Please keep in mind that sometimes Pilos refers to the conical bronze helmet. So the reference might mean the metal helmets.
Except that the chances of an arrow piercing a work-hardened bronze helm is so low as to be statistically negligible. It is unlikely that the arrows Thucydides describes would have penetrated metal helmets as easily as he implies.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books