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The level of armor among perioikoi or helots) is an open question. I think the assorted funerary vases from 6th century aryballoi showing a full suite of equipment argues for citizens with more armor than almost any eastern med power. Also, chigi vase. But that's a looooong tweet
I put van Wees and B. Bachrach (re: early medieval mounted milites) in same methodological boat: They advance a radical revisionist idea, and then overwhelm the opposition by publishing the same idea over and over. Then generalists pick up the idea and it becomes "standard."
Can't the same be said of VDH, Kagan etc? I'm not sure this a unique method? Do you reckon HvW et al have supplanted the old model in more general works on Greece? I'm not convinced.
This narrative is the opposite of reality. HvW has hardly "overwhelmed the opposition" by publishing his ideas in one chapter and one book. Meanwhile the likes of VDH just repeat the same tired, questionable theories over and over again, never bringing anything new.
1/2 I'm not supporting VDH in this. His case is also based on nothing. And I'm not making a case about Agon, or about short decisive battles, or anything of the sort. Only about relative amount of armor (Greeks vs E. Med), and a packed phalanx. But as for "assumptions":
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