Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age
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Elements of Warfare Weapons Armor Helmets Shields Chariots Formations Achilles fights Memnon over body of Antilochus, BF Amphora c.500 b.c.
Homeric Warfare Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Reality? Iron Age Reality?
Evaluating Authenticity of “Troy” Hollywood version of Mycenaean Age or Dark Age or amalgamation of both?
Weapons for Achilles Pyrrha among the women of Scyros Poussin
Divine Armour Achilles Thetis Hephaestus (Vulcan) Benjamin West
The Bow Philoctetes & the bow of Herakles Paris & the Death of Achilles
LHI Armor Shoulder guard, Dendra Signet Ring, Thisbe, Boeotia Perishable Cuirass?
LHII Bronze Armor from Dendra Chamber Tomb Charioteer or Foot Soldier? Boar’s Tusk Helmet
LHIIIA-B Thebes Cuirass –solid bronze –stitched sheets
LHIIIA-B Variation, Innovation or Continuity? Mycenae
LHIIIA-B Armor Reconstructions
Linear B Armor Ideograms Knossos LHIIIA Pylos LHIIIB2
Helmets: EBA: Cyclades
Boar’s Tusk Helmets Theran fresco MH helmet from Kolonna, Aegina
MH, LHI & LHII Helmet Styles
Full Body Shields: Figure-of-Eight & Tower Lion Hunt Dagger & Gold Ring Shaft Grave IV, Mycenae
Figure-of-Eight Shield Frescos: Tiryns Palace & Mycenae Cult Center Goat Hide Central Boss
Tower Shield Akrotiri, Thera Telamonian Ajax Body Shield diminishing popularity over time as bronze becomes more common?
Other Shield Types? LHIIIC Pictorial Style Krater Warrior Vase, House at Mycenae Note Smaller Shields Eastern Influence? Sea Peoples?
The Round Shield Pylos fresco LHIIIB Tiryns Kraters LHIIIC
Proto-Dipylon Shield? Stone sculpture Mycenae, probably LHIIIC Geometric (Iron Age) Dipylon Cemetery
Weapons Daggers Cut and Thrust Swords
Archery, Spears & Javelins Bronze & Chert arrowheads from Mycenaean sites Archery in Iliad & Odyssey
Chariot Warfare Transport or Fighting Platform?
Battle formations? Individual Combat Serried Ranks? (Myrmidons) Phalanx a later development
Iron Age Armor