CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Riace, Polis, Linothorax

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Rho is for the riace bronzes/warriors (p. 178: bronze satues fished out of the sea (not kouroi!, found at riache. Warfare in the archaic age: (499-400 bce: 2 fith century wars, persian war (499-479 bce) greeks vs persians, peloponnesian war (431-404 bce) greeks vs greeks. Chigi vase (p. 114-115: earliest representation of war, only visual evidence of warriors marching to music. Income from captured prisoners (greeks ransomed others sold for slaves) Cavalry: dark age innovation, aristocratic, small horse, no stirrups, lightly used (only scouting and minor skirmishing and screening what the infantry was doing, no chariot warfare. Hoplite : heavy armed infantrymen: named after a type of shiel, land owning citizen farmer, supplied own equipment (not polis, panoply (all his equipment, no uniformity, helmet, cuirass or linothorax, greaves, hoplon, shield devices. Helmet: leather cap with bronze helmet on top, often had a horse hair crest, helmets are hot, noisy and heavy, no protection for the neck.