Odysseus's Boar's Tusk Helmet

                                         Odysseus's Boar's Tusk Helmet - Iliad Book X

    Thus he spoke and the two of them clothed themselves in their terrible armour. To the steadfast Thrasymedes the son of Tydeus was given a two-edged sword, for he had left his by the ship, and a shield. On his head was placed an ox-hide cap without a horn or a crest, usually call a leather helmet and worn by sturdy young men. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword and on his head he placed a helmet made of strong hide and made solid with leather straps on the inside. On the outside were the bright teeth of a white-tusked swine, close set together on one side and the other and lined with a felt of soft wool. This was the helmet that Autolycus once stole out of Eleon when he had broken into the well-built house of Amyntor, son of Ormenus, and he gave it to Amphidamas from Cythem to take to Scandeia, and Amphidamas gave it to Molus as a present, but he gave it to his son Meriones to wear, and now it rested there, covering the head of Odysseus.