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Any current works about hoplite shield devices? - Condottiero Magno - 08-04-2014

Aside from G.H.Chase's 1902 The Shield Devices of the Greeks in Art and Literature, has another title been published or in the works containing newer findings?


Any current works about hoplite shield devices? - Dithrambus - 08-09-2014

No, unfortunately. Chase remains the only academic publication dedicated to shield devices. At least that I'm aware of and I'm quite sure if there were another, someone would have mentioned it by now. :-(


Any current works about hoplite shield devices? - hoplite14gr - 08-11-2014

Since I hope to write a book in the future .... please find out what some research has done so far....

Also most existing works on the subject are in Greek for the time being...

http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/the-usage-of-capital-letters-as-shield-devices/

some thought on the Thespians
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-thespians/

and some thoughts on the elite hoplites of the West ...
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/elite-hoplite-shield-devices-from-magna-grecia/

Kind regards