Hello group. R u ready for quiz#4? This guy looks pretty simple to place huh? Well, the question is not only where's he from but also what century. Lets hear...
... Alexander's the Great Navy!!! ... Actually he's about a contemporary of Alexander. This is a late hoplite that demonstrates the changes that the Athenian...
What kind of breast plate did they wear if it isn't brass. It looks like it is leather or something. If they faced another phalanx with traditional armor they...
All sorts of cuirasses were used by greek hoplites except for chain mail which, to my knowledge, was only used by Persians and Romans a little later. Don't...
In a message dated 2/4/2003 9:33:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Did Iphicrates make his hoplites lighter to deal with peltasts? or his peltasts heavier to...
I think that he made the hoplite lighter, but it could be the other way around also, or both. I was recently reading an article that talked about this. From...
Octavian's fleet beat Marc Antony's egyptian fleet at actium. ... War. Fleets in the Med were allowed to decay in the first two centuries of the Imperium - no...
The Romans were good After the punic wars. They needed greeks and carthaginians to show them how to make ships and sail them. In the beginning they had crews...
This picture shows 2 guys from the same culture and area but from different times. Where do you think they're from? Make your guesses friends. cheers, Miltos ...
In a message dated 2/6/03 2:09:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Early Gallic warrior with lime stiffened hair of the type that routed the Romans at Allia in...
... routed the ... chieftain. ... Hmmm could be. I would say they could very well be close neighbors (and relatives)of your gallic warriors: Britons. The kind...
I also agree. The must be from the Gallic region. The 1st guy must be before the Romas. The other one must be in the Roman period. Not sure anyway! GP!...
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Just a little addition: From all the sources that I've read it would appear that the Romans got chainmail from the Celts, not the other way around. Also, the ...
Etruscans developed chain mail and roman inherited it. Then the celts got it along with other things. Probably from the Romans though. ... would appear that ...
Can you tell us a bit more about this? From what I know in the first encounters of Romans and Celts, the latter wore close to nothing in combat as they...
anyone wanna guess where this guy is from? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up...
In a message dated 2/10/03 5:48:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Interesting. That goes against all the current thought of armorers and archeologists that...
In a message dated 2/10/03 6:24:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... A Persian noble equipped as Xenophon's ideal cavalryman from "On Horsemanship" He apparently...
... mounted ... The horse has armor. This designates heavy cavalry. Sort of fits the Sasanid Persians rather than Achaemenid. The helmet, it looks a bit ...
... celts ... and ... what ... Because the etruscans painted such armor on their art, for example in the Frangois Tomb at Vulci (4cent BCE) they paint both the...
... the ... Persian ... Notice the absence of stirrups. By the 8th century AD they were common throughout central asia and europe so he can't be anything that...
In a message dated 2/11/03 4:36:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... First your characterizing the Kelts as primitive metal workers is incorrect. We have plenty of...
... to Roman ... especially ... Yes, quite right. ... mail, and ... of the ... I'm not sure I follow here. I don't know which thorakiatoi you're referring to....
Hello, I am trying to discover whether the small buckler shield was ever completely replaced by the Gallic Thureos? I would have assumed that many "earlier"...
