The Feel of the Past

1. The Feel of the Past

2. The Feel of the Past in Star Wars • Military Costumes, Weapons and Aviation • Touches of Art Deco • Hitler’s Germany • Far Eastern Influences • Luke’s Transformations • Mythic Settings

3. Trench Warfare World War I Rebels on Hoth

4. Military Costumes Luke Skywalker Wild Bill Hopson

5. Weapons Mauser "Broomhandle" C96 Blaster Pistol

6. Aviation Inside the Millennium Falcon B-29 Superfortress

7. Art Deco 1930’s Female robot from Fritz Lang’s film “Metropolis” (1927) Restoration Trailer 3CPO

8. Hitler’s Germany Baron Manfred von Richthofen

9. Far Eastern Influences Portrait of an Old Man by Kuniyosi, c.1850

10. Japenese Kabuto Helmet

11. Eastern Weapons Totokia, a Fijan War Club Tusken Raider with gaderffii

12. Luke’s Transformations

13. Mythic Settings Mayan Pyramid Coruscant

14. Coruscant Pantheon in Rome

15. Feel of the Past in Homer • Boar Tooth Helmet • Homeric Shields • Nestor’s Cup

16. Boar Head Helmet ...while on his head He put a helmet made of hide, stiffened With numerous taut leather thongs inside And faced outside with gleaming white teeth Of a tusker boar set thick in alternate rows Cunningly and well. It was lined with felt. (Iliad 10.261-65, Stanly Lombardo trans.)

17. The Feel of the Past in Greek Mythology 2400-1100 B.C. the Greek Bronze Age Minoan Civilization Mycenaean Civilization The Age of Heroes 1183 B.C. Fall of Troy 1100-800 B.C. the Greek Iron Age Dark Age of Greece c.750 B.C. Homer HOMER could never have seen a helmet like the one he described in the Iliad. Homer is describing the Bronze Age to people who lived hundreds of years later!

18. Ajax’ Full Body Shield So Aias drew near, bearing his shield that was like a city wall, a shield of bronze with sevenfold bull's-hide, the which Tychius had wrought with toil, he that was far best of workers in hide, having his home in Hyle, who had made him his flashing shield of seven hides of sturdy bulls, and thereover had wrought an eighth layer of bronze. This Telamonian Aias bare before his breast, and he came and stood close by Hector, and spake threatening: "Hector, now verily shalt thou know of a surety, man to man, what manner of chieftains there be likewise among the Danaans, even after Achilles, breaker of the ranks of men, the lion-hearted. Howbeit he abideth amid his beaked seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host; yet are we such as to face thee, yea, full many of us. But begin thou war and battle."

19. GreekShields Mycenaean Warriors

21. Making Achilles’ Shield Achilles Shield Iliad 18.369ff

22. Achilles’ Shield

23. Achilles’ Shield • a shield made of Mycenaean metals (bronze, not iron)) • assembled using Mycenaean techniques (metal inlay • but with scenes laid out according to a Dark Age design • showing a panorama of Dark Age life It is the world of the Dark Ages in Bronze Age trappings, much like the Iliad itself.

24. Greek Armor Classical Mycenean

25. Nestor’s Cup Found by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 in Grave Circle A at Mycenae Now in National Museum in Athens • The Iliad of Homer (11.632-637) • describes a magnificent golden cup (depas) • that belongs to Nestor, the king of Pylos: • Beside these she set a cup, • a magnificent work Nestor had brought from home, • studded with gold. There were four handles on it, • around each one a pair of golden doves was feeding. • Below were two supports. When that cup was full, • another man could hardly lift it from the table, • but, old as he was, Nestor picked it up with ease. • (translation by Ian Johnston) Date of Cup: c. 1600 Date of Trojan War: 1183 Date of Homer: c.750

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