Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Paul,there is nothing to suggest this happened in ancient Greece,and even though it is plausible,I don't see why it had to be done.Some times in art you could say your theory could be viable but in many others there is no way there were metal plates.And linen armour existed as well in other cultures.It seems you just feel plain linen(or leather) lacks something and you need to put metal plates in the linothorax...If nothing else,the Thebes finds suggest that the evolution you proposed was not nessecary.And as Andrea said,many of those mycenean plates would apply to some kind of segmented armor or dendra type armor.
Khaire
Giannis