07-07-2009, 12:43 AM
Paralus wrote:
Xenophon refers to two types of Hoplite armour, viz, "thorakes" ( lit: body armour) almost certainly a reference to the bronze muscled corselet in this context ( we are told they are heavier than the other sort, and there were evidently fewer than 50 in the army) and "spolades" by definition a leather body armour which hangs from the shoulders, and is almost certainly the common Tube-and-Yoke corselet......
Quote:What sort of body armour were "Xenophon's" mercenary hoplites wearing on their anabasis?
Xenophon refers to two types of Hoplite armour, viz, "thorakes" ( lit: body armour) almost certainly a reference to the bronze muscled corselet in this context ( we are told they are heavier than the other sort, and there were evidently fewer than 50 in the army) and "spolades" by definition a leather body armour which hangs from the shoulders, and is almost certainly the common Tube-and-Yoke corselet......
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(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
