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Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age

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.

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Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age

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  1. Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age

  2. 300 • Flagship Cinemas • Waterville • 9:20 start • Be early! • $6.25 • Colby ID

  3. Elements of Warfare • Weapons • Armor • Helmets • Shields • Chariots • Formations Achilles fights Memnon over body of Antilochus, BF Amphora c.500 b.c.

  4. Homeric Warfare • Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Reality? • Iron Age Reality?

  5. Evaluating Authenticity of “Troy” • Hollywood version of • Mycenaean Age or • Dark Age or • amalgamation of both?

  6. Weapons for Achilles • Pyrrha among the women of Scyros • Poussin

  7. Divine Armour • Achilles • Thetis • Hephaestus (Vulcan) • Benjamin West

  8. The Bow • Philoctetes & the bow of Herakles • Paris & the Death of Achilles

  9. LHI Armor Shoulder guard, Dendra Signet Ring, Thisbe, Boeotia Perishable Cuirass?

  10. LHII • Bronze Armor from Dendra Chamber Tomb • Charioteer or Foot Soldier? • Boar’s Tusk Helmet

  11. LHIIIA-B • Thebes • Cuirass • solid bronze • stitched sheets

  12. LHIIIA-B Variation, Innovation or Continuity? • Mycenae

  13. LHIIIA-B Armor Reconstructions

  14. Linear B Armor Ideograms Knossos LHIIIA Pylos LHIIIB2

  15. Helmets: EBA: Cyclades

  16. Boar’s Tusk Helmets • Theran fresco • MH helmet from Kolonna, Aegina

  17. MH, LHI & LHII Helmet Styles

  18. Full Body Shields: Figure-of-Eight & Tower • Lion Hunt Dagger & Gold Ring • Shaft Grave IV, Mycenae

  19. Figure-of-Eight Shield Frescos:Tiryns Palace & Mycenae Cult Center • Goat Hide • Central Boss

  20. Tower Shield • Akrotiri, Thera • Telamonian Ajax • Body Shield diminishing popularity over time as bronze becomes more common?

  21. Other Shield Types? • LHIIIC Pictorial Style Krater • Warrior Vase, House at Mycenae • Note Smaller Shields • Eastern Influence? • Sea Peoples?

  22. The Round Shield • Pylos fresco LHIIIB • Tiryns Kraters LHIIIC

  23. Proto-Dipylon Shield? • Stone sculpture • Mycenae, probably LHIIIC • Geometric (Iron Age) Dipylon Cemetery

  24. Weapons • Daggers • Cut and Thrust Swords

  25. Archery, Spears & Javelins • Bronze & Chert arrowheads from Mycenaean sites • Archery in Iliad & Odyssey

  26. Chariot Warfare • Transport or Fighting Platform?

  27. Battle formations? • Individual Combat • Serried Ranks? (Myrmidons) • Phalanx a later development

  28. Iron Age Armor

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