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Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age
300
• Flagship Cinemas• Waterville
• 9:20 start• Be early!• $6.25• Colby ID
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 ArmorShoulder guard,
DendraSignet Ring,
Thisbe, BoeotiaPerishable 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 Reconstructio
ns
Linear B Armor Ideograms
KnossosLHIIIA
PylosLHIIIB2
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