1
Homer did not live in or describe the Mycenaean prime, with its stone arrow-tips.
2
Defensive armour was unknown, we are told, in the Mycenaean prime, which, if true, does not affect the question.
3
The course of evolution seems to be: (1) the Mycenaean prime of much archery, no body armour (?
4
He is such an erudite archaeologist that, in the seventh century, he knows and carefully describes a helmet of the Mycenaean prime.
5
Or did he see a sample in an old temple of the Mycenaean prime, or in a museum of his own period?