07-08-2006, 03:03 PM
No worries I am more familiar with Spartan Army than you think.
The Osprey image shows the Bull of Elos but not of the Spartans rather of the Perioikoi so is wrong for Thermopylae.
About Lakedemonian shields:
http://spartan-world.de/hoplites3.html .
Coins are not full proof because a city can circulate up to 5 different images on a coin at the same time frame.
As for pottery read my inital post at the beginig of this thread.
Kind regards.
The Osprey image shows the Bull of Elos but not of the Spartans rather of the Perioikoi so is wrong for Thermopylae.
About Lakedemonian shields:
http://spartan-world.de/hoplites3.html .
Coins are not full proof because a city can circulate up to 5 different images on a coin at the same time frame.
As for pottery read my inital post at the beginig of this thread.
Kind regards.
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com