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- Title
Antik Çağ'da Savaşçı Bir Halk: Thraklar.
- Authors
KARACA, Ergün
- Abstract
In this article, the military characteristics, the clothes their wore, the weapons their used and the tactics of during the battle of the Thracians, that one of the most warrior peoples in the Ancient times, were examined. The study was mainly created, in line with the information by ancient authors. In addition, the article is supplemented by Greek red-figure pottery made in the 5th century BC. In the study particularly was used, made in the regions where the Thracians live the depictions of Thracian warriors on the fresco in the tumulus dating to the early 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The warrior Thracians served as volunteers, sometimes compulsory or mercenary in their own armies or in the armies of other states. As we can see from ancient sources and Greek red figure ceramics, Thracian soldiers used their traditional clothes as uniforms, from the early period until the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Thracians wore alopekis made of fox skin, they wore narrow trousers and a tunic that was tied at the waist and sleeveless and down to the knee, and at the top they wore the characteristic Thracian zeira, a thick and long garment. On their feet, they wore their own unique deer-skin boots called embedes, which completely covered the calf. As a result of their contact with Greeks in the 5th century BC and Macedonians from the middle of the 4th century BC, Thracians began to use their military clothing and weapons.
- Subjects
MILITARY weapons; MILITARY uniforms; ETHNIC costume; POTTERY; VOLUNTEERS; PANTS; CALVES; POTSHERDS
- Publication
SDU Journal of Social Sciences, 2021, Vol 53, p11
- ISSN
1300-9435
- Publication type
Article