CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Satrap, High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema, Royal Electrical And Mechanical Engineers
11 Jul 2014
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Riace bronzes found in 1980 in sea by riace, italy hollow cast bronze warrior statues not archaic kourai because : different posture; relaxed, no symmetry, no archaic smile, short hair with facial hair, possibly holding shields and spears. 3 categories of male warriors: cavalry, from the dark age, aristocratic, used small horses with no stirrups, only lightly used (5% of army, no chariots (cid:224) landscape is mountainous, hoplites, heavily armed infantry men, panoply: equipment (hopla, helmet, cuirass (breastplate, greaves (shin pads, hoplon (shield, spear, helmet: bronze with crest of horse hair, restricted vision, neck unprotected, hot, heavy & hard to wear, cuirass: bronze & uncommon, hot, heavy & can be pierced by a spear, more common: linen cuirass. Heavy armour & no desire to fight: light armed troops, couldn"t afford panoply, slingers and archers, poor, not land owners, rarely used in archaic age, winners set up a trophy to display their win over the opposing @ the end of battle.
