05-11-2007, 09:58 AM
If I remember rightly, Hunnish bows are nocked differently, bending the string further over the ends of the bowstave than is the case with Scythian bows.
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05-12-2007, 02:54 AM
Weren't there Scythian horse archers?
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05-12-2007, 03:58 AM
Quote:Weren't there Scythian horse archers? Yes, there were in Scythia. Unless you are referring to the Scythian policemen in Athens, in which case they weren't mounted.
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
05-12-2007, 12:18 PM
Xenophon mentions "Hippotoxotae" horsh-archers in Athens in his cavalry works. I do not know if they were Skythian though but I find it very probable.
Some poeple specultae the existence of Thracian horse'archers but I do not know how they justify that. The geographical proximity of Thracians to the Skythians is not enough in my opinion. Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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05-12-2007, 01:48 PM
Quote:Xenophon mentions "Hippotoxotae" horsh-archers in Athens in his cavalry works. I do not know if they were Skythian though but I find it very probable. its more likely that it was Scythians on Thracian horses
05-13-2007, 02:41 PM
Quote:its more likely that it was Scythians on Thracian horses ...and/or Athenians as well
Paul Klos
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05-15-2007, 03:53 PM
Hmmm... if they were Acharnians reputed to be hunters would probably be infantry archers.
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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