Would any of you happen to have information or additional images of this:
https://www.livius.org/pictures/greece/megara/megara-figurine-of-two-hoplites/
Nice find - I had not seen that before.
On the Louvre site it's at http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=6401 but the photo is much the same as the Livius one, and the text doesn't tell you much except that it may not be of local Megaran manufacture.
Quote from: Duncan Head on August 30, 2019, 08:45:59 AM
Nice find - I had not seen that before.
On the Louvre site it's at http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=6401 but the photo is much the same as the Livius one, and the text doesn't tell you much except that it may not be of local Megaran manufacture.
Thanks,
I am surprised that this is not better known. I only saw it by chance. It is rather unambiguous in showing how the aspis was held in single combat- something that is endlessly debated from images on vases where the artist is constrained to two dimensions. See how well it comports with both Philippine warriors and their very aspis-ish shields and Marozzo's Italian partizan and rotella.