04-24-2007, 08:07 PM
Quote:Well, they say that Alexander re-equipped his pike-men with so-called half-armour at the Indus. The old sets were burned.
The only primary source to comment on the burning of the old armour and the introduction of new armour is Quintus Curtius, who says nothing about "half armour," but does say that the 25000 new cuirasses were inlaid with gold and silver.
Quote:This suggest not variety, but rather uniformity.
The sources say that the half-armour covered the front and not the back.
What primary source is that?
Quote:I find that unlikely. I suspect that it actually was an armour of the Type Alexander wears on the Alexander mosaic. Looking at the reconstrocked armour of the Alexander Sarcophagus (Nick Secunda, The Armies of Alexander the Great, Osprey), I noticed that you could interpret the 'light purple' of the armour as iron ant the light yellow as linen.
Blue is used on the Alexander sarcophagus, just like other paintings of that time period (Aghios Athanasios, for instance) to represent iron, not purple. Those cuirasses are simply dyed linothorakites.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
