Transcript Warfare in the Bronze Age and Iron Age

Warfare in the Bronze Age
and Iron Age
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Elements of
Warfare
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Weapons
Armor
Helmets
Shields
Chariots
Formations
Achilles fights Memnon
over body of Antilochus,
BF Amphora c.500 b.c.
Homeric
Warfare
• Bronze Age
(Mycenaean)
Reality?
• Iron Age Reality?
Evaluating
Authenticity of
“Troy”
• Hollywood version
of
• Mycenaean Age or
• Dark Age or
• amalgamation of
both?
Weapons for Achilles
• Pyrrha
among the
women of
Scyros
• Poussin
Divine Armour
• Achilles
• Thetis
• Hephaestus
(Vulcan)
• Benjamin
West
The Bow
• Philoctetes
& the bow
of Herakles
• Paris & the
Death of
Achilles
LHI Armor
Shoulder guard,
Dendra
Signet Ring,
Thisbe, Boeotia
Perishable Cuirass?
LHII
• Bronze Armor from Dendra
Chamber Tomb
• Charioteer or Foot Soldier?
• Boar’s Tusk Helmet
LHIIIA-B
• Thebes
• Cuirass
– solid bronze
– stitched sheets
LHIIIA-B
Variation, Innovation or
Continuity?
• Mycenae
LHIIIA-B Armor
Reconstructions
Linear B Armor Ideograms
Knossos
LHIIIA
Pylos
LHIIIB2
Helmets: EBA: Cyclades
Boar’s Tusk Helmets
• Theran fresco
• MH helmet from Kolonna, Aegina
MH, LHI & LHII Helmet Styles
Full Body Shields:
Figure-of-Eight &
Tower
• Lion Hunt Dagger & Gold Ring
• Shaft Grave IV, Mycenae
Figure-of-Eight Shield Frescos:
Tiryns Palace &
Mycenae Cult Center
• Goat Hide
• Central Boss
Tower Shield
• Akrotiri, Thera
• Telamonian
Ajax
• Body Shield
diminishing
popularity
over time as
bronze
becomes
more
common?
Other Shield Types?
• LHIIIC Pictorial Style
Krater
• Warrior Vase, House
at Mycenae
• Note Smaller
Shields
• Eastern Influence?
• Sea Peoples?
The
Round
Shield
• Pylos fresco
LHIIIB
• Tiryns Kraters
LHIIIC
Proto-Dipylon Shield?
• Stone
sculpture
• Mycenae,
probably
LHIIIC
• Geometric
(Iron Age)
Dipylon
Cemetery
Weapons
• Daggers
• Cut and Thrust
Swords
Archery,
Spears &
Javelins
• Bronze & Chert
arrowheads from
Mycenaean sites
• Archery in Iliad &
Odyssey
Chariot
Warfare
• Transport or
Fighting
Platform?
Battle formations?
• Individual
Combat
• Serried Ranks?
(Myrmidons)
• Phalanx a later
development
Iron Age
Armor