Setting up a trophy in fifth-century BCE Greece marked a battlefield victory site
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Setting up a trophy (tropaion) made from captured enemy armor and weapons was a well-established practice in fifth-century BCE Greece to mark the site of a battlefield victory.
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Tropaion – an Ancient Symbol of Victory
2025 · cited by 0
Paper 2 notes that the practice of erecting a tropaion—a post dressed in captured enemy weapons—originated in Greece by at least the fifth century BC and was erected immediately following a victory.
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Ancient trophy monuments – origins, evolution and signification in the Greek world
2016 · cited by 0
Paper 3 discusses ancient Greek trophy monuments erected on the battlefield to commemorate victory and honor the war gods.