Hoplites in Spain.

[P. Lilius Frugius Simius]

Not quite yet in panoply... I'll try in the future, though, but it looks like it's very difficult! Maybe the next party... ;-) )

Khairete!

[FAVENTIANVS]

What kind of party is it gonna be? :roll:

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

There is a greek re-enactor team in Spain. I do'nt know if they have a web. Probably FAVENTIANUS know it.



It's a photo of a past event.

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

That mosaic is roman in the hellenistic style (100 bC aprox). Depicts the Ifigenia's sacrifice. Because of that, the people are depicted in greek fashion.

[Anonymous]

Not quite yet in panoply... I'll try in the future, though, but it looks like it's very difficult! Maybe the next party... ;-) )

Khairete!

On the contrary, my dear fellow, it's dead easy, if rather time-consuming. But don't forget that you don't need body armour to participate, as the Festival covers later periods when Hoplites relied entirely on their shields for protection.

[hoplite14gr]

Polychromos means multicolored.
From Avitianus picturea I can make out a rather heavily armed Thracian and an Argive(?). Thank you all for your help. I made tha army list and I will sent it to Chris Bradley to post it on the www.fanaticus.org lists.
Hope Spanish DBA players be pleased.
Kind regards
Stefanos

[Arthes]

http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:

This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:

There is a greek re-enactor team in Spain

That cut away cat shield is gorgeous.....!
regards
Arthes

[Tarbicus]

http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:

This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:

Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?

[Arthes]

http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:

This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:

Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?

I wondered exactly the same thing..... :?:

[Arthes]

http://www.urich.edu/~wstevens/History2 ... oplite.jpg
Do you imagine them like that?
Regards :wink:

This was the first one I opened .....and it is rather an eye opener..... hock:

Is that his hair hanging down from under the back of his helmet?

Tarbicus & Arthes, yes look at this plate example, the man from his back:
A kind of dredlocks, perhaps representing serpens as the Amazon Gorgon.
look at his shield.
http://img220.imageshack.us/full.php?im ... y043iz.jpg

my first impression was 'it's a female' but maybe not... :?
The design on the shield looks Persian..you see that sort of depiction on masks and stuff from the 'East'
The scythians were also described as having 'flowing tangled windblown hair' and on close inspection of some engravings, sometimes it looks like 'dreads' or braids...
I had never thought about it being connected with Medusa....
PS The coloured Chalcidian helm on [url:ez0e4llq]http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/war/Armor.htm[/url] - wow.....
regards
Arthes

[Arthes]

and what is even stranger given the colours....was I did this on 28th October.. hock:

and look at this [url:uriv6quk]http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o34060.html[/url]
I think I will become Chalcidian......drooling....!!!!

regards
Arthes

[Arthes]

Can you do something with this?

I will try......... :roll:

[hoplite14gr]

Nice work Cristina.
As for the Shield in the illustration. The Gorgoneio marks this guy as a member of the SPARTA mora- "A Spartiatis". Patron god was Chalkioikos Athena, hence the Gorgoneio. The illustration is based on the "parade vase".
Hair were long in the Archaic Era (750-600 B.C.) nt only for the Spartans but for the warrior elite in general. Possiblut hehoplites appeared on parade and religious pomps in a more "artistic" way than in battles.
Its an interpretetaion but still speculative.
Kind regards
Stefanos

[Anonymous]

What kind of party is it gonna be? :roll:

It's gonna be aspisbearingdorywieldinglinothoraxwearingdramaplayingstaderacingkopischoppingboxingwrestlingrunningjumpingaphroditechoosingphalanxchargingarrowshootingshotslingingoinosgluggingGREAT!

So be there.

[Anonymous]

There is a greek re-enactor team in Spain. I do'nt know if they have a web. Probably FAVENTIANUS know it.



It's a photo of a past event.

Thanks, Cesar,

We ought to invite them. Favianus, do you know how we can contact them, please?