05-14-2007, 09:12 AM
I started off by saying, and have repeated since, that we really don't know, but was hoping that a review of the evidence might turn up something new or overlooked....sadly, that doesn't appear to have happened --- but for me, the review of the literary evidence showed up the striking lack of reference to greek linen armour.
Can anyone who has read Jarva summarise his views ?
And it would appear use of the term'linothorax' is inappropriate for the tube-and- yoke corselet !!! ( But no doubt the term will live on ! )
It would be nice to try to establish an exhaustive list of the colour illustrations--Macedonian tombs, Italian paintings, and Egyptian ones.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
Can anyone who has read Jarva summarise his views ?
And it would appear use of the term'linothorax' is inappropriate for the tube-and- yoke corselet !!! ( But no doubt the term will live on ! )
It would be nice to try to establish an exhaustive list of the colour illustrations--Macedonian tombs, Italian paintings, and Egyptian ones.
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