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- A thyreos or thureos (Ancient Gr****: θυρεός) was a large oval shield which was commonly used in ****enistic armies from the 3rd century BC onwards. It...
- sword. They also usually wore an iron or bronze Macedonian helmet. The thureos was probably originally an adapted form of a Celtic shield. Thracian and...
- the thureos shield, a thrusting spear and javelins. Plutarch says that they could be effective at a distance, but in close combat the narrow thureos shield...
- 2nd century BC, showing a Ptolemaic thureophoros soldier (wielding the thureos shield). It is a characteristic example of the "romanization" of the Ptolemaic...
- their name we can deduce that most wore armor and helmet. They bore a thureos, an oval shield, and were armed with sword, javelins and spear, which were...
- Fresco of an ancient Macedonian soldier (thorakites) wearing mail armour and bearing a thureos shield...
- Fresco of an ancient Macedonian soldier (thorakites) wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield, 3rd century BC, İstanbul Archaeology Museums...
- Thureophoroi and the Thorakitai, were developed. They used the Celtic Thureos shield, of an oval shape that was similar to the shields of the Romans...
- clot of blood thrombus, thrombocytopenia thyr(o)- thyroid Gr**** θῠρεός (thureós), large oblong shield; + εἶδος (eîdos), a form or shape thym- emotions...
- Fresco of an ancient Makedonian soldier (thorakitai) wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield, 3rd century BC...