08-20-2006, 06:47 PM
Well most of these arm and foot protection comes from the Thebes Bronze age arsenal date roughly 1200 B.C.
Please try again. Andrea Salibeti has improved the pages.
Well it is a fact that BA economy was better and definitely could sustain more "extravagant" troops than classical era.
Archaic arm guards and foot guards of the "foot-knight" type of hoplite exist in the Olympia meuseum and this is a good reconstruction based on them:
http://www.soldiers-russia.com/new_sold ... _pb223.htm
Kind regards
Please try again. Andrea Salibeti has improved the pages.
Well it is a fact that BA economy was better and definitely could sustain more "extravagant" troops than classical era.
Archaic arm guards and foot guards of the "foot-knight" type of hoplite exist in the Olympia meuseum and this is a good reconstruction based on them:
http://www.soldiers-russia.com/new_sold ... _pb223.htm
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com