To protect the head. It was fashionable a couple of centuries before the Trojan War.
Spear, helmet, dog, chariot, boar.
Attic helmet, Corinthian helmet, Beotian helmet, Chalcidian helmet, Illyrian helmet, Boar's tusk helmet.
In mythology, she did have tusks.
The spear, helmet, dog, chariot and boar.
The spear, helmet, dog, chariot and boar.
A wild boar [Sus scrofa] gets tusks as of the age of two years old. In the male, the upper tusks are hollow and serve as sharpeners for the lower tusks. In females, there's only the lower tusks. But regardless of the gender of the boar or the number of the tusks, boar tusks are sharp.
Tusks
unless if it were a boar or a warthog
The large boar used his tusks to bore through my makeshift shield. I wouldn't want to bore you with the details of my recent boar hunt.
Zeus: thunderbolt Hera: peacock Poseidon: trident Hades: Helmet of Invisibility Demeter: wheat Ares: a bull with a spear through it Athena: owl Apollo: lyre Artemis: stag Hepaestus: hammer Aphrodite: dove Hermes: winged boots Dionysus: wine Pan: Pan pipes (reed pipes)
Boars have tusks they use as self defence! You do not want to meet a boar there fast for there big size. Boars are bigger and tougher pigs.
Boars have tusks they use as self defence! You do not want to meet a boar there fast for there big size. Boars are bigger and tougher pigs.