list of f igures 3.5 The replica trireme Olympias. Photo courtesy of the Trireme Trust. 3.6 Cohort strength report on a writing tablet from Vindolanda (c. ad 100, north Britain). Tabulae Vindolandenses ii.154, front. C Copyright Oxford, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the British Museum, 2004. 4.1 Terracotta symbola from Athens. Courtesy of the American School of Classical Studies – Agora Excavations. 4.2 Alabaster vase given as a token of recognition by the Persian king Xerxes, whose name is inscribed on it in four languages: Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian and Egyptian. London, British Museum. C Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum. 4.3 Grave monument for Pythagoras of Selymbria, a proxenos buried with public honours in the Cerameicus cemetery at Athens, c. 460-450 bc. C Copyright DAI Athen (neg. Kerameikos 5999). 5.1 Earliest-known hoplite panoply, from Argos. Late eighth century.
Photo courtesy of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library. 5.2 (a)-(c) Hoplite armour and the sideways-on stance adopted by hoplites in combat represented by a statuette from Dodona, c. 500 bc. Berlin, Antikensammlung. C Copyright Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Misc. 7470). Photos: (a)-(b) Jutta Tietz-Glagow, (c) Ingrid Geske. 5.3 Two slave attendants assisting four hoplites as they arm themselves, on an Attic cup of c. 480 bc. Vatican City, Museo Etrusco Gregoriano (inv. 16583). Photo courtesy of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library. 5.4 A light form of hoplite equipment common in the classical period as represented on the grave monument of Lisas of Tegea, buried in Attica in the late ï¬fth century bc. 5.5 Charging cavalrymen with light round single-grip shields and javelins on an archaic terracotta plaque from Thasos. Reproduced from L. J. Worley, Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece (Boulder 1994), ï¬g. 3.3. 5.6 Peltast with characteristic crescent-shaped shield, carrying a spear underarm as if for thrusting rather than throwing, and wearing Thracian-style boots and a fox-fur cap, with a fur wrap around the waist. (Attic vase of c. 480 bc found in a grave in Boeotia and now in Thebes.)