par Andrianne, Gilles
Editeur scientifique Cannuyer, Christian;Cherpion, Nadine N. Ch.
Référence Société Belge des Études Orientales - Regards sur l'orientalisme belge(49: 1-2 avril 2011: Louvain-La-Neuve (Université Catholique de Louvain)), Acta Orientalia Belgica XXV, Regards sur l'orientalisme belge, suivis d'études égyptologiques et orientales. Mélanges offerts à Claude Vandersleyen, Vol. 25, Ed. 1, page (307-316)
Publication Publié, 2011
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Résumé : The bow was often seen as an exotic weapon in ancient Greece. It is indeed used very seldom and is considered in Greek culture to be the favorite weapon of eastern nations and lesser warriors. However, some clues found in the Greek archaic material, such as archer gods and heroes, suggest that the bow had great importance in archaic Greece. Research on the origin of the word τόξον ("bow") – considered to be an inherited form of an identified indo-european root according to recent hypothesis – and analysis of the homeric material tend to show that Greece inherited cultural elements about bows and archers and altered them after the archaic era, unlike eastern nations which generally overvalue bowmanship.