06-20-2009, 08:04 AM
Paralus wrote:
A thickish shoulder flap of, say several layers of leather, would all but stand up when unfastened and thrown back ( as would thick linen), and would not, unless very thin, flop down the back - being quite stiffish. No modern reconstructions, apparently, whether linen or leather, are springy. ( I have asked this question previously on RAT ).
Quote:It certainly conveys that impression though. Perhaps the artist wished that impression to be conveyed. I can't really discern a reason for the fastening to be so.. "alive" if the flap is simply laid back.If we are talking about Patroclus, his shoulder flap also (rather unrealistically) has the fastening thong writhing about, snake-like, in mid-air....perhaps the artist wishes to imply that it has just been thrown back?
How do you see it being " simply thrown back"?
A thickish shoulder flap of, say several layers of leather, would all but stand up when unfastened and thrown back ( as would thick linen), and would not, unless very thin, flop down the back - being quite stiffish. No modern reconstructions, apparently, whether linen or leather, are springy. ( I have asked this question previously on RAT ).
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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
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