To anticipate, the typical spartan fighting helmet does not exist. In the course of the film "300" the wrong idea arose that the Lakedaimonians, as the Spartans actually called themselves, had produced an independent type of helmet. Rather, they used the Corinthian and also the Athenian battle helmet.
This helmet, actually a Corinthian variant, shows great similarity with the fight helmet worn by the hero Leonidas at Thermopylae. The distinctive Lophos, an ornament of the helmet made of horse mane and tail, is striking.
The term "laconic" - short, concise, apt - can be traced back to the Lakedaimonians. When the Persian great king Xerxes asked Thermopylae to deliver the weapons, Leonidas replied: Come and get them!
Bronze helmet exhibit of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, dated to the 6th century BC, replica reduction, on marble-like artificial stone base.
Size ideal for your desk.
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