Aug 22, 2024
Athenian Hoplite in the Persian Wars, twitter was curious about the cloth on the Aspis, so I will share that info here. The cloth is called an apron, sometimes curtain/skirt, and also referenced as "parablemata" it made an appearance in art and archeology around the time of the Persian Wars and fell out of use shortly after, suggested as an arrow catcher/deflector but I haven't finished reading up on it's full use.