06-24-2010, 11:08 PM
Quote:To quote J. K. Anderson:
Quote:Most important of all is the frieze from the monument of Aemilius Paullus at Delphi. This has been convincingly interpreted as showing actual incidents of the Battle of Pydna on 22 June 168 B.c., and it includes three examples of "Macedonian" shields whose embossed decoration is very similar to that on the south wall of the Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles. These are all carried by infantrymen, which removes the temptation to argue that the occupants of this rich sepulcher might have served in the cavalry.
One of the two (whether it was Lyson or Kallikles who bore the embossed bronze shield, we cannot say) was certainly an infantryman, but the other individual interred in the tomb very well may have been a cavalryman.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
