Prosthetics?

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>>1573494
Herodotus (4th cent. BCE) tells a story about a guy, Hegesistratus, who cut off his own foot to escape the Spartans. He had it replaced with a wooden one.

>>1573562

A thousand years early, but thanks all the same. That's pretty interesting, I wonder how realistic his wooden leg was.

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>>1573494
Sorry, you said hands.
Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) tells about Roman General Marcus Sergius (c. 200 BCE). His right hand was cut off and he had an iron one made so he could hold his shield.

There was a Byzantine Emperor with a gold prosthetic nose. maiming people was a pretty common way of disqualifying people from rulership. Usually when someone was overthrown they'd be blinded, maybe castrated. But the guys who overthrew Justinian II cut off his nose, which was apparently not enough to stop him from coming back with a vengeance later on

>>1573572

Nice. Wouldn't iron rust and also poison his stump? I can't see it being very healthy, though I suppose if he only used it in battle it could work.

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>>1573494
I was zapping channels and ended up watching an ancient ayyliens documentary where they claimed that some Germanic deity had a golden prosthetic hand "that worked just like a real hand" and COULD THIS MEAN IT WAS A BIONIC IMPLANT ??!!?? STAY TUNED

>>1573582

Yeah, Justinian, he had his nose cut off.

>>1573584

Which Germanic Deity? Tiw had only one hand, but he certainly didn't have a prosthetic.

>>1573583
I image it was more like a gauntlet, with a bit of cloth over the nub, then the nub slides into the prosthetic

>>1573591

Ah, that would make more sense, yes.

>>1573589
I wasn't paying attention because I don't really know or care about Germanic mythology, but after checking I'm pretty sure they were talking about Thor and insisting that his iron glove was actual a prosthetic hand. Yeah.

>>1573620

Sounds like the usual crazy nationalists.