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15th-14th century B.C. Agamemnon, son of King Atreus, mighty King of Mycenae, commanded the united army of. Achaeans that sailed to Troy. The expedition, ostensibly to avenge the abduction of Helen by the. Trojan Prince Paris, was probably a strategic move to control the straits to the Black Sea.
- Ancient Greek Armors
End of 6th century B.C The epic narrative requires indeed...
- Medieval Byzantine Armors
The armors of Byzantines are unknown to the general public...
- Mycenaean Armor
Undoubtedly the Late Helladic era (15th -11th century BC),...
- Ancient Greek Armors
Mycenaean Armor. Undoubtedly the Late Helladic era (15th -11th century BC), well known as Mycenean period, is characterized as a vivid war-centric society.
The armor should have been constructed around the middle of the 15th century BC (Late Helladic II period) and it is being consisted exclusively by bronze plates, in total 18 pieces of different sizes and shapes (full plate armor).
The Greek Age of Bronze Armour. The earliest element of an Achaean defensive armour is a bronze shoulder protection found in Dendra tomb 8 dated from LH I and LH II (1550-1500 BC). Originally described as a helmet it was later correctly identified as a right shoulder protection.
The Greek Hoplites carried a shield (aspis), linen armor (linothorax) or muscle cuirass, a Corinthian or Phrygic type helmet, a thrusting spear (dory) and a short sword (xiphos) or a slashing sword (kopis).
21 Δεκ 2019 · Because Thracians often buried their warriors with their armour, we have a series of nine cuirasses from c. 500 to c. 350 that throw light on the metal working of northern Greece of the fifth and fourth centuries (Ognenova 1961, passim).
During the fifteenth century, plate armor became the dominant form of protection, and by about 1500 had all but displaced mail and fabric armor or relegated them to secondary functions such as protecting the joints and easily exposed areas of the body.
