Hoplite Shield Designs

[Kineas]

Just to be contrary, and perhaps because I admire your blog so much that I need to argue with you, I think that most academics have reverted to the assumption that something so widely represented is in fact real. But in my usual way, I will build one (pretty high on my priorites) and show the results here. A recent article int he Cambridge Companion has moved me to try, if only because his suggestions on how they were constructed and how they might have devloped alongside the aspis interest me.