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This closeup image shows the fine workmanship that went into making the hand crafted greaves that Steve is wearing. They are authentically Roman in style, accurately reflecting the Romans' tastes in the use of fantastic stylized faces of mythical animals and beasts in the adornment of their military accoutrements and weapons. These might include a bull with the head of a man, a centaur, which is a horse with the upper body of a man, a griffin, which was a winged lion, a likeness of Medusa's head with writhing snakes instead of hair, or any number of creatures which were a combination of humans and beasts.

 

 
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