weapons and armour of the greek marine

[Sean Manning]

Two quibbles with that earlier thread on Greek marines: I know of no evidence that fifth-century triremes had substantial gunnels, so if marines wore no greaves it wasn’t because the ship could protect their legs, and Scythians could well have serves as marines even if they were probably not the mainstay. Nomad archers tend to be skilled at shooting from a kneeling position on the ground, and the Persian fleet of 480 BCE used Parsa, Mada, and Saka marines (Hdt. 7.96) to supliment their seagoing peoples.