KHG is back from Greece, bearing Grecian gifts. And mine is quite neat - check out the photo. It's also bronze - just like the originals.I especially like it because it reminded me of the Aeneid, described here. The cover design on the book features a guy wearing a similar helmet (though you'll have to take that on faith as the image of the cover is too small). The battle scenes in the Aeneid make me believe that a warrior would trade off the reduced visibility of this helmet design for greater protection from swords and other lethal objects.
Checking around, it seems that this indeed was the classic design. Click here for a short discussion of the Corinthian helmet; the author claims Herodotus wrote about this.
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