08-28-2009, 01:43 AM
Two questions: Is it established that Aeneas was the same man as Aeneas the Stymphalian who moved on Sycion with his band of men in Xenophon's Hellenica (book 7.3 I think)? Also, was that Aeneas the Stymphalian the same as the Aneas the Stymphalian mentioned as a leader in the anabasis( book 4.1.27, 7.13)? The last passage is coincidentally in the same section that linen armor with a fringe instead of pturges is mentioned among the barbarians, which surely has been posted here before:
Quote:From this place they marched through the Chalybes[1] seven stages, fifty parasangs. These were the bravest men whom they encountered on the whole march, coming cheerily to close quarters with them. They wore linen cuirasses reaching to the groin, and instead of the ordinary "wings" or basques, a thickly-plaited fringe of cords. They were also provided with greaves and helmets, and at the girdle a short sabre, about as long as the Laconian dagger, with which they cut the throats of those they mastered, and after severing the head from the trunk they would march along carrying it, singing and dancing, when they drew within their enemy's field of view. They carried also a spear fifteen cubits long, lanced at one end[2].
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"