06-08-2005, 10:14 PM
Yes, AVI is right...
About the armguards... I don't deny they could have been used... but not as much as movies show!
We know about the gladiatorial - though Dacian wars - right arm guard (or left for the retiarii) and the one used by the 8th or 7th century b.C. early hoplite, but I think it as an exception to the norm, you gotta have your right arm with a good and free movement.
There were the archers left one too...
Mail gloves could have been used too... battle re-enactors use'em succesfully...
More opinions wanted on the subject!
About the armguards... I don't deny they could have been used... but not as much as movies show!
We know about the gladiatorial - though Dacian wars - right arm guard (or left for the retiarii) and the one used by the 8th or 7th century b.C. early hoplite, but I think it as an exception to the norm, you gotta have your right arm with a good and free movement.
There were the archers left one too...
Mail gloves could have been used too... battle re-enactors use'em succesfully...
More opinions wanted on the subject!
Ivan Perelló
[size=150:iu1l6t4o]Credo in Spatham, Corvus sum bellorum[/size]