Weapons and armor
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
brazen arms · armor · breastplates · clubs · crested helmets · helmets · horn · hostile spears · javelins · light shield
spoken of as
1 expressionArmor and weapons1 mention
Odyssey (Greek)
their servants came and took their armor from them, and they left all the presents at the house of Klytios.
in the texts
Suppliants
The armor a slain chief's child imagines wearing as an adult warrior avenging his father.
Shall Asopus’ laughing tide ever reflect my brazen arms as I lead on my Argive troops?
Odyssey
The weapons and armor in the house that Odysseus instructs Telemakhos to hide from the suitors, leaving only a sword, spear, and shields for themselves.
their servants came and took their armor from them, and they left all the presents at the house of Klytios.
But leave a sword and a spear apiece for yourself and me, and a couple oxhide shields so that we can snatch them up at any moment;
their servants took their armor from them, and they went up in a body to the place of assembly, but they would not let any one old or young sit along with them, and Antinoos, son of Eupeithes, spoke first.
Antigone
The martial equipment associated with the Argive assault and Thebes' defense.
Chorus:
he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood;
You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from Argos in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
Anabasis
Arms, armor, and signaling instruments used by Greeks and Thracians during the campaign.
Then the Thracians took to flight, swinging their shields around behind them, as was their custom;
Meanwhile, Seuthes came to their aid with seven horsemen of his front line and his Thracian trumpeter.
Some of the Thynians, however, turned about in the darkness and hurled javelins at men who were running along past a burning house, throwing out of the darkness toward the light;