10-23-2007, 09:39 PM
Jason wrote:-
...without wishing to go over old ground, that statement is rather misleading, especially to newer members, and glosses over the fact that no classical Greek writer refers to Greeks wearing 'linen' armour.
The little evidence in the sources points to the opposite conclusion to the one you are attempting to imply here.
evil:
Quote:The ancient greeks wrote about armour made of linen around the same time as all the vase pictures were produced, yes this can never be definative but the odds are pretty stong that the linen armour that they are talking about is what we know today as the linothorax
...without wishing to go over old ground, that statement is rather misleading, especially to newer members, and glosses over the fact that no classical Greek writer refers to Greeks wearing 'linen' armour.
The little evidence in the sources points to the opposite conclusion to the one you are attempting to imply here.
evil:
"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
