05-10-2007, 07:30 AM
Might I point out one major flaw with the idea that the spolades (undoubedly armour ) were given to slingers ?
Since when, in this period ( or any other for that matter) did slingers wear armour? Any sort of armour would impede the free use of the sling, and slow down the wearer, thus impeding his ability to run, and hence his function as psiloi !!
If Xenophon had taken the highly unusual step of equipping psiloi in this fashion, he would surely have said more and explained why.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
Since when, in this period ( or any other for that matter) did slingers wear armour? Any sort of armour would impede the free use of the sling, and slow down the wearer, thus impeding his ability to run, and hence his function as psiloi !!
If Xenophon had taken the highly unusual step of equipping psiloi in this fashion, he would surely have said more and explained why.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
