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Updated: May 13, 2025

Either Reichel is wrong, when he said that the huge shield made the use of the war chariot necessary, or the poet is "late"; he is a man who never saw a large shield like Hector's, and, though he speaks of such shields, he thinks that men could walk and run under them. Reichel, Homerische Waffen, 120ff.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age