![]() ![]() 119 Google Scholar–20, and id., Sludien zur Mitra (Münster, 1966), pp. Milrê as a broad metal belt worn underneath cuirass: Snodgrass, EGA W, pp. 67), and simply means the corslet itself the more general term is used instead of thôrêx ‘for metrical reasons’ ( Snodgrass, EG AW, p. More plausible, it seems to me, is the suggestion that zôma is used here as a general term for ‘that which is girded’ (Studniczka, ibid. 293) Google Scholar others have argued that the zôma is either the woven tunic or a loincloth worn under the corslet, and that the poet does not mention the corslet itself in these passages ( Studniczka,, op. The scholia suggested that zôma meant the lower part of the thôrêx (accepted by Helbig, W., Das homensche Eposaus den Denkmälern erldäien 2, p. We may suppose that belts could be fastened in different ways, or that they had buckles back and front alternatively, we may perhaps read the Polydoros-passage as a hyperbalon, taking ‘where the golden fasteners of the zôster met’ with what follows (‘ …, the point of the spear went right through past his navel’), rather than with that which precedes it ('He hit him in the middle of the back,…).Ī final problem is the fact that in two later passages the arrow that struck Menelaos is said to have penetrated a zôma, not thôrêx (after the zôstêr and before the milrê 4.186–7, 215–16). I would suggest that the corslet is ‘twofold’ at the spot in question simply because the metal buckle of the belt here adds an extra layer of armour.Ī related problem is the fact that, while the buckles of Menelaos' belt are in front, as one would expect, the buckles of Polydoros' belt appear to be on his back. , 80) Google Scholar, but the contexts show that Menelaos is hit full in front and that in the second passage Polydoros is hit in the small of the back. Why is the corslet ‘twofold’? It has been suggested that this is a reference to the front- and back-plate overlapping at the flanks (e.g. There are a few problems with these passages. For broad belts on naked bronze figurines, see n. 197 Google Scholar Boardman, J., Anatolia 6 ( 1961– 1962), 179–89 Google Scholar Brandenburg,, op. Actual bronze belts dating from the late ninth century B.C. (worn by the first warrior of the first rank of the lefthand army), and, it appears, also on a sixth-century black-figure vase (Boston 98.923 worn by the righthand duellist reproduced in Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Artand Poetry ( Berkeley, 1979), p. A bronze belt is depicted on the famous Chigi vase of c. 247 Google Scholar, hold that bronze belts and bronze corslets are incompatible, though Leaf, W., JHS 4 ( 1883), 76–7 Google Scholar, did envisage the combination. Brandenburg, H., ‘Mitrê, zôstêr und zôrma’, Archaeologia Homerica El ( Göttingen, 1977), p. I take it that ‘curved tunics’ ( streptoi khitones) fastened with straps (5.133 21.30–1) is yet another poetic phrase, referring to the curves of the bronze cuirass ( contra Studniczka,, op. Linen cuirasses are mentioned 2.529–30, 830. W., ‘Panzer’, Archaeologia Homerica El ( Göttingen, 1977), pp. The identification is accepted by Catling, H. 61–2 Google Scholar, who cites as a parallel the metaphor ‘wearing a stone tunic’, meaning ‘to be stoned to death’ (3.56–7). One man is said to wear a ‘bronze tunic’ ( Khitôn 13.439–40) that this means a cuirass was already recognized by Studniczka, F., Beiträge zur Geschichte derallgriechischen Tracht ( Vienna, 1886), pp. Khalkokhitones (31x Iliad, 2x Odyssey): e.g. The range of movement would not have differed much: even a single-grip shield could not have been held very far from the body, given that it was suspended by a necessarily rather short and non-elastic strap.Ħ4. 48–9) Google Scholar does not seem valid to me. The further argument that the heroes manipulate their shields in ways which would have been impossible with double-grip shields ( Lorimer, HM, pp. Since a passage in Herodotos (1.171) and vase-paintings suggest that double-grip shields never had a telamón, we may infer that the Homeric shield had only one handle. 188), and that shields are ‘slung across the back’ in flight (8.94 11.545). The presence of a houlder strap is also implied by the fact that shields are taken up before helmets are put on (e.g. ![]()
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