Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite

Culture: Classical Greek

Setting: late Archaic, Persian wars, Aegean 7th-5thc BC

Object: κνημίδες greaves

Royal Ontario Museum > Bronze Age Aegean *

"GREEK-STYLE LEG ARMOUR A pair of bronze greaves, hammered to fit the shape of the leg.

A standard piece of armour worn by the Greek foot-soldier (hoplite)

Bronze, Italian-Greek colonial, or native Italic 5th-4th century BC." ...

* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World

"Greave (shin guard) for the right leg Italy.

Said to have been found near Bologna, Italy

Late Archaic period, about 510-480 B.C. Bronze" ...

* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World

"Greave (shin guard) Greece. Said to have been found in Elis,

Greece Archaic period, about 650-625 B.C. Bronze" ...

Deepeeka #AH6140 *