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Greaves

Objects

Named shin-guards of later classical infantry practice. Not a generic boot dump, not geta, and not Helskór.

Also known as Knemides · Classical greaves

Hellenic religion

  • Greaves appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names the greaves, the shin-guards of Achaean panoply, in the standing epithet of the well-greaved Achaeans and in arming scenes. A named Homeric armor-piece, not geta and not Helskór.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.