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Ancient Greek Armors. Unique handmade museum quality creations of high historical and artistic value.
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Katsikis Dimitrios the Artist Demetrios Katsikis is an...
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Armors, as valuable signs of military superiority and high...
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- Ancient Greek Armors
For Greeks, armors were linked inextricably to war fields...
- Medieval Byzantine Armors
The armors of Byzantines are unknown to the general public...
- Men under armour
Model: Αthanasios Barkas, Theofilos Βryennios, Dimitrios...
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We build Ancient Greek, Medieval Byzantine and Mycenaean Armors of high historical Fidelity
For Greeks, armors were linked inextricably to war fields and heroic glory to the extent that their absence implied even automatically lack of bravery and manliness (Iliad X,124-125). Objects of prestige and pride, emblems of high degree in the military and social hierarchy, insignia of aristocratic origin, symbols of power and wealth, signs of ...
Ancient Greek weapons and armor were primarily geared towards combat between individuals. Their primary technique was called the phalanx, a formation consisting of massed shield wall, which required heavy frontal armor and medium-ranged weapons such as spears. [1] .
The defensive armour most used consisted of four pieces: helmet (kranos), cuirass (thorax), shield (aspis) and greaves (knimis). A weapon is called hoplon from which panoply and hoplite (a man with weapons) is derived (initially the shield was called hoplon (όπλον) but today hoplon is a general name for weapon).
9 Απρ 2021 · Apparently, the composite organic armor that depicted to this very mosaic is a Linothorax type of military defensive gear, a wide spread typical Greek body armor worn by Greeks at least from the middle of the 6th century BC.
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