"Athenian Archers" Topic

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Tango01	09 Jul 2018 2:47 p.m. PST
From Black Tree Design Miniatures… link Main page eoeorbisuk.com Amicalement Armand
ZULUPAUL	09 Jul 2018 3:06 p.m. PST
How can they see?
Pictors Studio	09 Jul 2018 3:11 p.m. PST
HUD in the helmets.
Frederick	09 Jul 2018 5:20 p.m. PST
They have terrible aim – it doesn't matter
bsrlee	09 Jul 2018 8:47 p.m. PST
The Athenians hired Scythian archers and used them as the local Police Force. Any 'native' archers would have been too poor to afford a helmet, being of the same economic class as the rest of the psiloi and finding better employment as rowers in the fleet.
GurKhan	10 Jul 2018 1:23 a.m. PST
The Athenian archer corps that fought with the army and the fleet was an entirely separate force from the Scythian archer-police, and was partly recruited from Athenian citizens. There's an inscription that refers to "both the astoi and the xenoi archers", that is, both citizens and foreigners. See link for a good recent study: "Two of the three citizen toxotai on this naval catalogue were actually quite prosperous men, because they had each brought a slave on board.It seems that archer corps membership had given them a good livelihood. … This surely is the answer to Trundle's question: some Athenians chose to serve as archers for the sake of full-time employment." That status may explain why vase-paintings and so forth do show occasional archers in helmets or cuirasses.
GurKhan	10 Jul 2018 5:33 a.m. PST
Oh, and for the "Scythian archers", see PDF link – "From this [references by Aeschines and Andocides] it would seem that the three hundred Scythian archers and the twelve hundred (unspecified) archers were two distinct bodies".
Tango01	10 Jul 2018 11:11 a.m. PST
Thanks! Amicalement Armand
Uesugi Kenshin	13 Jul 2018 8:28 a.m. PST
They look like Martians.

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