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I’m reading the Iliad. In it when one soldier defeats another he usually tries to strip him of his armor right there in the battlefield. Was this an actual practice and, if so, why?

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I’m reading the Iliad. In it when one soldier defeats another he usually tries to strip him of his armor right there in the battlefield. Was this an actual practice and, if so, why?	12
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