cnemid
English
Noun
cnemid (plural cnemids)
- A greave: a bronze shin protector worn in combat by Ancient Greek warriors.
- 1979, Jacques Briard, Mary Turton, transl., The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe: From the Megaliths to the Celts, Routledge, page 106:
- But at times it had been thought that they could have been variations on the cnemid, the bronze shin-protector worn by Greek warriors in combat.
- 2008, Jean Guilaine and Jean Zammit, Melanie Hersey, transl., The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory, Wiley, page 205:
- The fresco battle painting from Pylos, Greece, shows warriors wearing cnemids for protection.
- c. 2017, “Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves”, in Metropolitan Museum of Art:
- This helmet and the pair of greaves (shin guard), or cnemids, complementing it belong to the key elements of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have used in combat.
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