12-19-2005, 10:56 AM
Quote:paulaallen:3iepa9pn Wrote:Some of the shields on the models look like a cross between the dipylon type and the figure-of-eight. If I remember rightly, the figure-of-eight is the earlier and more likely to have featured in the Trojan wars, while the dipylon would have been more the size of the Argive aspis, and of that (Classical) period, or just before.
There are no "figure-8" shields in the Iliad. There are no "tower" shields in the Iliad. Every single shield described in any detail by Homer is circular.
Really? I had forgotten that, it being, as I mentioned previously, more than thirty years since I last read it. But it's not relevant, Dan, because Homer, as we know, didn't describe the weapons and armour of the Trojan War accurately, possibly on account of his living some four hundred years later.
