1. Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age

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3. Elements of Warfare Weapons Armor Helmets Shields Chariots Formations Achilles fights Memnon over body of Antilochus, BF Amphora c.500 b.c.

4. Homeric Warfare Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Reality? Iron Age Reality?

5. Evaluating Authenticity of “Troy” Hollywood version of Mycenaean Age or Dark Age or amalgamation of both?

6. Weapons for Achilles Pyrrha among the women of Scyros Poussin

7. Divine Armour Achilles Thetis Hephaestus (Vulcan) Benjamin West

8. The Bow Philoctetes & the bow of Herakles Paris & the Death of Achilles

9. LHI Armor Shoulder guard, Dendra Signet Ring, Thisbe, Boeotia Perishable Cuirass?

10. LHII Bronze Armor from Dendra Chamber Tomb Charioteer or Foot Soldier? Boar’s Tusk Helmet

11. LHIIIA-B Thebes Cuirass –solid bronze –stitched sheets

12. LHIIIA-B Variation, Innovation or Continuity? Mycenae

13. LHIIIA-B Armor Reconstructions

14. Linear B Armor Ideograms Knossos LHIIIA Pylos LHIIIB2

15. Helmets: EBA: Cyclades

16. Boar’s Tusk Helmets Theran fresco MH helmet from Kolonna, Aegina

17. MH, LHI & LHII Helmet Styles

18. Full Body Shields: Figure-of-Eight & Tower Lion Hunt Dagger & Gold Ring Shaft Grave IV, Mycenae

19. Figure-of-Eight Shield Frescos: Tiryns Palace & Mycenae Cult Center Goat Hide Central Boss

20. Tower Shield Akrotiri, Thera Telamonian Ajax Body Shield diminishing popularity over time as bronze becomes more common?

21. Other Shield Types? LHIIIC Pictorial Style Krater Warrior Vase, House at Mycenae Note Smaller Shields Eastern Influence? Sea Peoples?

22. The Round Shield Pylos fresco LHIIIB Tiryns Kraters LHIIIC

23. Proto-Dipylon Shield? Stone sculpture Mycenae, probably LHIIIC Geometric (Iron Age) Dipylon Cemetery

24. Weapons Daggers Cut and Thrust Swords

25. Archery, Spears & Javelins Bronze & Chert arrowheads from Mycenaean sites Archery in Iliad & Odyssey

26. Chariot Warfare Transport or Fighting Platform?

27. Battle formations? Individual Combat Serried Ranks? (Myrmidons) Phalanx a later development

28. Iron Age Armor