03-18-2005, 09:14 PM
I'm not sure where else it crops up, especially as I haven't read all of Thucydides in the Greek, but I know at least of one mention in Herodotus, 4.180.3. It's a very strange little story, but that doesn't matter; the helmet is still called 'Corinthian'.<br>
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"Before they let them fight, they join together to dress up the prettiest of the current generation of young women at public expense in a <strong>Corinthian helmet</strong> and a set of <strong>Greek armor</strong>, mount her on a chariot, and take her around the lake."<br>
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kune/hi Korinqi/hi in Beta-code Greek, or roughly, kynei Korinthei. <p></p><i></i>
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"Before they let them fight, they join together to dress up the prettiest of the current generation of young women at public expense in a <strong>Corinthian helmet</strong> and a set of <strong>Greek armor</strong>, mount her on a chariot, and take her around the lake."<br>
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kune/hi Korinqi/hi in Beta-code Greek, or roughly, kynei Korinthei. <p></p><i></i>
Dan Diffendale
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
