The Homeric world of Alexander the Great

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The Homeric world of Alexander the Great

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In 1960 in the Dendra area in Argolis a Mycenean tomb was discovered and excavated (previously plunged). The robbers must have taken the swords. The tomb contained the remains of a warrior who wore a full- body bronze armor. The armor dates back to 1500 BC.

The panoply’s cuirass consists of two pieces, for the chest and back. These are joined on the left side by a hinge. There is a bronze loop on the right side of the front-plate and a similar loop on each shoulder. Large shoulder-guards fit over the cuirass. Two triangular plates are attached to the shoulder-guards and gave protection to the wearer’s armpits when his arms were in the raised position. There is also a deep neck-guard. The Linear B ideogram depicting armour of this type makes the neck-guard clearly discernible, and protection by a high bronze collar was a typical feature of Near Eastern body armour. Three pairs of curved plates hang from the waist to protect the groin and the thighs. All these pieces are made of beaten bronze sheet and are backed with leather and loosely fastened by ox-hide thongs to allow some degree of movement. The complete panoply thus forms a cumbersome tubular suit of armour, which fully protects the neck and torso, and extends down to the knees. It appears that lower arm-guards and a set of greaves further protected the warrior, all made of bronze, as fragments of these were also found in the grave at Dendra. Slivers of boars’ tusks were also discovered, which once made up a boars’-tusk helmet. (found the italics at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendra_panoply)

Let me add that the entire panoply weighed 15 kilos and the helmet had attached to it 40 wild boar teeth. This shows that the warrior was brave enough to have slain at least 40 animals of the species. All the Myceneans wore helmets of that sort in order to induce fear to their enemies. The armour's lower part was created to be loose and flexible enough for enhanced movement.

Thus Homer's words come true: The Acheans wore "bronze hitons".

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Also look at these 3 links....

Is it me or therer is a crazy faint resemblance?

http://www.google.gr/imgres?q=samurai+a ... :254,i:201

http://www.google.gr/imgres?q=samurai+a ... :128,i:124

http://www.google.gr/imgres?q=samurai+a ... :224,i:140
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