Classical Greek Shield Patterns

This collection is mainly intended to help wargamers painting their Greek armies.
These shield patterns have been garnered mostly from books on vases and other items of pottery in museums around the world.
There are 200-odd patterns here at the moment, and more get added slowly as and when I get the time,
but it's a slow job.

Most of the shields shown here are "hoplons", a few are peltas or similar, there are also a few parablemata (shield aprons);
unless noted all are carried by warriors on foot rather than mounted.
I use "Greek" in a wide sense including Greek-influenced Italian states such as Campania,
from where most late 4th century depictions of hoplons come from.

The word hoplon did not actually come to mean the peculiar shield associated with hoplites
until the end of the 5th century, and even then it was still more often referred to by the more generic name "aspis".

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