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What Armor Did the Heroes of the Odyssey and the Iliad Wear?
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Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey (2026), wearing ancient Greek armor and helmet with red plume, standing against a painted wall. The Dendra panoply Mycenaean boar-tusk helmet Reconstructed Mycenaean armor worn by a modern Greek marine Achilles slaying Penthesilea Ajax and Achilles playing a game The Árgos panoply Hoplite warriors in combat
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Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey (2026), wearing ancient Greek armor and helmet with red plume, standing against a painted wall.
Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey (2026), directed by Christopher Nolan. The historical accuracy of the armor in Nolan's film has been the subject of controversy.

What Armor Did the Heroes of the Odyssey and the Iliad Wear?

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Teagan Wolter
Teagan Wolter is Associate Editor of Anthropology at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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The accuracy of movies and TV shows is a topic of discussion whenever a new historical epic hits our screens. In the case of Homer’s epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, what is or is not accurate depends on your perspective (and that’s even if you ignore the question: Is the Odyssey a true story?). The composition of the poems is attributed to Homer, and scholars date their writing to about 725–675 bce, but the...

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