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Peltasts and armor - Danielmeijers - 07-04-2013
Is there any mention of peltasts wearing light armor or even armor at all?
Peltasts and armor - M. Demetrius - 07-05-2013
From what I've read, they didn't even wear helmets. They carried a pelta and a batch of javelins.
Peltasts and armor - Macedon - 07-05-2013
Again you have to be much more specific. "Peltast" was a generic term and had many meanings throughout the ages. There were peltasts with no armor, just psiloi with a pelte, there were peltasts with heavy armor, like chain corselets who fought as light infantry and of course there were peltasts who fought in phalnax as often the phalangites were called because of their pelte shield, wearing any conceivable for the time type of armor. What type of peltasts are you interested in? What era? In whose author's work did you find them?