Shields dropped

• György Németh ^[1]
  1. [1] Eötvös Loránd University

     Eötvös Loránd University

     Hungría

     
• Localización: Acta classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, ISSN 0418-453X, Nº. 51, 2015, págs. 5-16
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ancient sources regarded throwing away one’s shield as a punishable crime in Greek poleis, and their testimony has been accepted by modern scholarship. However, if we read the accounts of actual instances of shield-dropping, we find that the interests of the whole community often took precedence over the demand to penalize shield-droppers.