Warfare and Society in Ancient Greece
Lecture 4
The world of the Homeric hero II
The tusk helmet
Mycenaean Greek boar tusk helmet, Mycenae, 14 century BC
The tusk helmet and the tower shield
Fresco from Thera, Crete, XVII cent. BC
The tower shield
Dagger from a tomb of Mycenae
The tower shield
Golden ring from a tomb of Mycenae
Mycenaean chariots
Royal Shaft-grave V in Mycenae (1500 BC)
Mycenaean chariots
Bronze plaque from the "Kadmeia" palace in Thebes, XV-XIV century BC
Mycenaean chariots
Fresco from Pylos dated LH IIIA/B (about 1350 BC)
Carl Bryullov, 'Portrait of the General-adjutant Count Vasiliy Alekseevich Perovskiyk' (1837)