08-28-2010, 01:35 PM
Does anyone happen to recognize this vase? I have the image, but not the provenance. It is perhaps the best image I have seen of hoplites with overlapped shields. Most images, like the Chigi, in fact show aspides facing the enemy edge-on, not overlapped.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
