Greek Saddleblankets?

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Most visual reperesntations show also shieldless cavalry while this seems not to be the case.

I'm curious what time period you're referring to, and why you think they did carry shields.

I've enjoyed his books, but he does sometimes seem to take a very definite positon on things that are open to different interpretations (like the Spartans abandoning the Linothorax, for example), so I treat them with caution.

Thanks again and Laudes,

Sekunda in general is an excellent researcher and is just about the only academic who is widely read and publishes extensively in the area of ancient arms and armour, but he certainly has some quirks to his scholarship. It's a shame that so many of his publications - publications which are oftentimes the only such works accessible to the general public - are tinged with many of his peculiar opinions and strange reconstructions. His Hellenistic Montvert titles are perfect examples of this: they are the only Osprey-style publications to date devoted to the Seleucid and Ptolemaic armies. While they provide numerous very interesting archaeological sources and thorough textual references, his theories of Romanization are extremely tenuous, with many of his assertions being easily refuted with only a basic acquaintance of the evidence, and so the uninformed reader takes it as gospel because this is the only resource published on the matter. Looking through the colour plates from the Seleucid Army title, there is not a single one that does not have a strange or erroneous reconstruction in it.