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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).
Ancient Greek Armors. Unique handmade museum quality creations of high historical and artistic value. all armors. 900-1500 A.C. Medieval Byzantine Armors. unknown to the general public largely because there are no sufficient archaeological findings to allow an easy and immediate reconstruction of their original form. all armors. o δημιουργός.
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).
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.
A 14-layer linen fragment has been found that dates back to the 16th century B.C. Some soldiers were buried wearing a helmet and a golden mask. Rigid scale armor made from metal, bone, wood or cir boulilli (leather made hard by boiling in wax) was used by the ancients Greeks and Romans.
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 ...
