Oxybeles
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The oxybeles was a weapon used by the Ancient Greeks starting in 375 BC. The word is derived from Ancient Greek: οξύς and βέλος. The weapon was basically an oversized gastraphetes, a composite bow pla
Oxybeles
Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece was an ancient civilization existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, comprising a loose collection of culturally and linguistica
Oxybeles
…The oxybeles (Greek: οξυβελής) was a weapon used by the Ancient Greeks starting in 375 BC. The word is derived from Ancient Greek: οξύς (oxys = sharp, pointed) and βέλος (belos = arrow). The weapon was basically an oversized…
The Parthenon, a temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens.
Dipylon Vase of the late Geometric period, or the beginning of the Archaic period, c. 750 BC.
Early Athenian coin, depicting the head of Athena on the obverse and her owl on the reverse – 5th century BC
Bust of Pericles, a leading Athenian politician at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war.