Thanks for the request we will try to write something that it is not "scholarly boring".Įxample: to reconstuct the Spartan boar We had to read not only Greek but also Latin writers that we presented in our references plus rare books of 19th century "gentlemen travellers" who had the good fortune to see many thing now worn out by time.
#HOPLITE SHIELD WITH THE LETTER A FULL#
The reconstruction of one emblem is a full magazine article by itself. So far only Chalkis and Eretria have been identified beyond reasonable doubt.Įretria is coming on the article about ancient Marines. Spyros, we first publish those that we have concrete evidence upon. We used him as a guide and we started finding miracles.Īnd we revised our "dogmatic" opinions as we went along. Now to be 100 % honest the first person who tried to categorize the Greek shield emblems was G.H. The collection of articles in a book is an option we try to pursue. Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - hoplite14gr - 02-07-2007
Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - spyros - 02-07-2007Ĭome on Stefane give us some hints! Also, do you have any data about Istiaia? I know it's a bit obscure but remember that this people were the only small league city to stand up against the Athenians before the Peloponnesian war (the fact that I am an Euboean play no part, honest :roll: ) Is it gonna be a more detailed research published in the form of a book? If not please give us some more details in the monthly articles.Įven if there was a book after i would still buy it :wink: We are talking about a primary form of logos in Greece. I think it would be fascinating since this didnt happened before and im very interested as graphic designer also. Is it possible to have them more detailed? I mean i would be really interested to see how the research came to conclude that this episimon matches with that city state, the background reasearch etc. I read the articles in the magazine and i have a request.
Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - Idomeneas - 02-06-2007 Keep up the great work love to buy copy when completed. Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - Craig Gascoigne - 02-06-2007 Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - hoplite14gr - 02-06-2007 Well done, Stefanos! Do you think it's possible to scan some pages for us, or is that not allowable?
Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - Zenodoros - 10-31-2006 September 2006 we started with Argos and this month appeared the first part of Sparta with more city states to follow.įor the time being non Greek speakers can only enjoy Nikos Panos artwork but we are still young and we hope that we will reach a more international audience sometime. Myself and a group of collegues have started publishing articles about Greek shield designs in the magazine ISTORIKES SELIDES (History pages). Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - hoplite14gr - 10-28-2006 Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - Mythos_Ruler - 08-16-2006īTW - What do you guys think about my hoplite? Even from the Bronze age ther was more to the Greek heraldry than the star signs. Peter, intersting book is seems but too much occult. You trust more the poeple you know and have fought with rather than an unknown group yuo meet fot the first time. Xenophons lets us to belive that each locality troops were sticking together in companies which is prudent. Most likely since they were localy recruited in various Greek places, as we are informed in the Anabasis they probably carried their states' shield device. The Osprey books interpetation of using the initial letter "K" of their employer Cyrus (KYPOS in Greek) is very simplistic. What kind of design would Xenophon and the men of the 10,000 have emblazoned on their shields? Re: Hoplite Shield Designs - hoplite14gr - 08-16-2006