Linothorax design/construction

[Paullus Scipio]

INYIGO wrote:-

But perhaps Sophocles' Epigonoi passage mustn't be discarded at all, we must be always careful regardindg greek tragic playwriters, in them we find a mixture of archaism and anachronism (just as we can see in vase painting mythilogical scenes, gods and heroes depicted in contemporaneus dress and armour. Also amazons are depicted ususally as persians or asians).

...oh, I agree entirely...it is at the very least a faint possibility that Sophocles is mixing archaic and current practise, but as seen in the fragment of Alcaeus (writing before the introduction of Tube-and-Yoke corselet) 'linen' 'woven' etc are poetic/Homeric terms that crop up frequently in epic poetry. When taken with the complete lack of reference/mention elsewhere, it strongly indicates that the latter is more likely than contemporary armour being 'woven'.

It is a mistake to look at/examine individual pieces of evidence in isolation - one should try to look at the whole picture....... even if most of the pieces of this particular jigsaw are missing !! You, of course, have contributed a new piece, hence a laudes !!