page_title: Chalcidian helmet
section_title: Usage
hierarchical_section_title: Chalcidian helmet / Usage
caption_attribution_description: English: Ancient Bronze Helmet
context_page_description: A Chalcidian helmet or Chalcidian type helmet was a helmet made of bronze and worn by ancient warriors of the Hellenic world, especially popular in Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. The helmet was also worn extensively in the Greek parts of Italy in the same period.
context_section_description: By the time of Alexander the Great, the helmet was still worn by armoured soldiers, especially Hoplites, the spear-armed heavy infantrymen (other than those of the Spartans, who instead wore the much plainer pilos helmet).  It is likely that some of the Macedonian soldiers who ruled the rest of Greece and went on to forge a substantial Hellenistic empire also wore the Chalcidian helmet.  The helmet is thought to have developed in turn into the Attic helmet which is iconic of classical soldiers.
caption: Chalcidian type helmet, circa 400 BC, discovered on north of Danube.
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