09-10-2007, 09:21 PM
Quote:Does someone have pictures from a frieze from the temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai in Arkadia, showing a warrior with a jerkin of a flexible material?The temple of Apollo , erected in a remote part of Arcadia was raised in thanks for being spared a plague. It was built by Ictinas, who went on to design the Parthenon. It had by way of decoration two friezes, both traditional mythological battles.One was a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs and the other Heracles leading Greeks against Amazons. The warriors in both are shown heroically nude. The friezes can be seen in the British museum. I have not seen anything that resembles Duncan's drawing, but perhaps he can shed some more light on its source, especially as it seems quite unique in apparently depicting a type of jerkin.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff