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Thanks for the info Stefanos.
BTW - What do you guys think about my hoplite?
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Stefanos
keep up the great work love to buy copy when completed.
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Stefane thats a good job. I read the articles in the magazine and i have a request. Is it possible to have them more detailed? I mean i would be really interested to see how the research came to conclude that this episimon matches with that city state, the background reasearch etc. I think it would be fascinating since this didnt happened before and im very interested as graphic designer also. We are talking about a primary form of logos in Greece. Is it gonna be a more detailed research published in the form of a book? If not please give us some more details in the monthly articles.
Even if there was a book after i would still buy it :wink:
aka Yannis
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I second that, Idomeneas
Come on Stefane give us some hints! Also, do you have any data about Istiaia? I know it's a bit obscure but remember that this people were the only small league city to stand up against the Athenians before the Peloponnesian war (the fact that I am an Euboean play no part, honest :roll: )
Spyros Kaltikopoulos
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The collection of articles in a book is an option we try to pursue.
We will see how it develops.
Now to be 100 % honest the first person who tried to categorize the Greek shield emblems was G.H. Chase of Princeton university in 1906.
We used him as a guide and we started finding miracles.
And we revised our "dogmatic" opinions as we went along.
Spyros, we first publish those that we have concrete evidence upon.
Most Evoic cities are under research. So far only Chalkis and Eretria have been identified beyond reasonable doubt.
Eretria is coming on the article about ancient Marines.
Yannis ,
The reconstruction of one emblem is a full magazine article by itself.
Thanks for the request we will try to write something that it is not "scholarly boring".
Example: to reconstuct the Spartan boar We had to read not only Greek but also Latin writers that we presented in our references plus rare books of 19th century "gentlemen travellers" who had the good fortune to see many thing now worn out by time.
Kind regards
Am I right in thinking that the yellow shield with a black octopus is an Aeginetan device? Are there any other examples of shields with yellow fields? (I've got a lot of yellow paint, see....)
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Paul
Aiginitans are under research for my ancient Marines article
The Octapus was for the Evoic city of Eretria.
It is depicted black on bronze but I see no reason for an extravagant Eretrian trireme captain to use yellow.
Kind regards
Eretria, of course! The ones who supported the Ionian revolt. I think I'll go for it.
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