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Psiloi
#31
So all the pictures of Greek Psiloi wearing a pelt would be made of wolf-skin..? Any other type of animal..?
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#32
Quote:So all the pictures of Greek Psiloi wearing a pelt would be made of wolf-skin..? Any other type of animal..?
Johnny

wildcat (bob cat), mountain-lion (puma), fox and natually the sheep skins worn up to now by the Balkan peasants.

Their footware woul probably be carbatinae over thick felt shocks in winter..

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#33
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TNarcher:1kgdppi2 Wrote:wildcat (bob cat),

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In English, it is called a Lynx, as in Greek
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#34
Sorry, and thanks for correcting me.

So in this case that skin might have been popular with the Lyngistes.

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#35
Hoplite and Psiloi National Meuseum Athens
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#36
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Greek Peltast 5th Century BC

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Wow! And the wolf skin? Is that the proto veles?
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#37
Quote:Hoplite and Psiloi National Meuseum Athens

The one on the left has a bell cuirass, is he supposed to be Psiloi?
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#38
Great pics!
I think it was Pausanias who wrote about the early Psiloi and the various pelts they wore. I remember bear, wolf, sheep, goat and lynx(?)....
Cool stuff!
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#39
I am curious. What's the difference between a sfendonites and a psiloi that uses a sling? Armour? Placement on the battlefield? No difference?
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#40
Zenodoros I need a better photo to show that it is not a bell curass (it look like one!) that the left figure is curring.

Most slingers and archers in Greece were herders with not enough means to fight as hoplites but some of them being free men and having skill with missile weapons bows and slings the served as auxliaries contesting broken terrain, performimg garisson duties, aiding the repaulse of cavalry, clearing enemy psiloi or being used as area denial troops.

Most goat herders in Greece used the sling as a traditioanl weapon and learned it from childhood. Only the Rhodians were more havily armed with shields animal pelts daggers and even swords and willing to engage in hand to hand. Other Greeks folowed suit after the hellenistic pariod

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