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Bronze Corinthian helmet, c. 500 BCE, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 4330) The Corinthian helmet originated in ancient Greece and took its name from the city-state of Corinth. It was a helmet made of bronze which in its later styles covered the entire head and neck, with slits for the eyes and mouth. A large curved projection protected the ...
The slight turning of the head indicates that the statue employed classical Contrapposto. Pericles is depicted as an adult man with a Corinthian helmet. The helmet symbolised his military role as strategos. The Berlin copy is especially carefully executed. The helmet is cocked back, with short curly hair bursting out at the temples.
Women can be seen wearing the himation over their head in depictions of marriages and funerals in art. [4] Men and boys can also be seen depicted in art as wearing solely the himation with no other clothing. [1] A more voluminous himation was worn in cold weather. [3] The himation is referenced as being worn by Socrates in Plato's Republic. [25]
Spartan hoplites were often depicted bearing a transverse horsehair crest on their helmet, which was possibly used to identify officers. [43] During the Archaic period, Spartans were armored with flanged bronze cuirasses, leg greaves, and a helmet, often of the Corinthian type.
From the 5th century B.C the Greeks developed the pilos helmet which derived from the hat of the same name. [17] This helmet was made of bronze in the same shape as the pilos which was presumably sometimes worn under the helmet for comfort, giving rise to the helmet's conical shape. [18]
Greek helmet may refer to any of the following: Attic helmet; Boar's tusk helmet; Boeotian helmet; Chalcidian helmet; Corinthian helmet; Galea (helmet) Illyrian type ...
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Corinthian helmet; G. Galea (helmet) I. Illyrian type helmet; K. Kegelhelm; Konos; P. Phrygian helmet; Pileus (hat) This page was last edited on 20 April 2016, at 18: ...