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lyculuscaelus · 2 days ago

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I just realized that if y’all are picturing the Iliad with historically accurate armor, specifically, with the ones similar to the Dendra panoply, then Hector would not die the way he died.

During the duel, Hector was wearing Achilles’s old armor, which means it’s a Mycenaean panoply, and the most famous one looks like this:

As you can see, the neck is well protected by the cuirass, so the thing about Achilles finding Hector’s open throat exposed thus stabbing him through the neck—that’s not gonna happen. Achilles would not be aiming for his throat for this reason, with this outcome.

Such a historical Hector would not die an Iliadic death.

#since we already know that Homer was picturing the battle scenes with Hoplites of his time which is considered anachronistic already #even though for other scenes both types of armor work #this is the one where this kind of Mycenaean panoply fails to apply #tagamemnon #the iliad #hector of troy #hektor #achilles #achilleus #homer’s iliad #trojan war #mycenaean #mycenaean greece #lycul�� crustula #edit: changed some wording since I was not talking about every possible Mycenaean armor #just the specific type like the Dendra panoply

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