Thursday, May 5, 2011

Ancient Shields.


Imagine you carrying a 20 pound equipment while at war. Hell to the ancient greeks, they had to carry shields like these. Shields we're often used my hoplites when at battles. Many of these shield were decorated with mythological symbols from the ancient greek, although everybody had their own shields meaning which everybody could decorate their own shields. One of the very important symbol that a lot of greeks had on their shields was pegasus. The shields is a large, round equipment to protect the whole body from getting hit by enemies. These shields we're made up of wood, copper, linen, & leather. Because of those, this made the shield heavy & weighed up to 20 pounds. 
- http://www.ehow.com/about_4586869_greek-mythology-shields.html

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