Hoplite Shield Designs

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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