11-26-2007, 07:08 AM
Just a few not so important remarks:
1. What I mean about the lexicas: both talk about leather thorakes, not diverting spolas and thorax. Pollux added that Xenophon could say spolas instead of thorax, what Xenophon did not do, at least in the scene with the slingers and the riders. Is Pollux wrong or is Xenophon inconsistent or both?
2. With the fruitless discussion I meant not this thread but the question wether spolas is the tube-and-yoke or a jerkin like leather armour or could be used for both. Jerkin like pieces appear some times in art, not so often however (just my feeling, not objective). I saw some examples on vases in exhibitions in Agrigent and Syracuse recently, some possible examples are shown in the leather cuirass thread (or may just be the chiton, see there). My problem is mostly the fact that I cannot bring together the tube-and-yoke and the mention that the spolas "hangs from the shoulder". It would be easier if it could be translated like "was affixed/closed at the shoulder".
1. What I mean about the lexicas: both talk about leather thorakes, not diverting spolas and thorax. Pollux added that Xenophon could say spolas instead of thorax, what Xenophon did not do, at least in the scene with the slingers and the riders. Is Pollux wrong or is Xenophon inconsistent or both?
2. With the fruitless discussion I meant not this thread but the question wether spolas is the tube-and-yoke or a jerkin like leather armour or could be used for both. Jerkin like pieces appear some times in art, not so often however (just my feeling, not objective). I saw some examples on vases in exhibitions in Agrigent and Syracuse recently, some possible examples are shown in the leather cuirass thread (or may just be the chiton, see there). My problem is mostly the fact that I cannot bring together the tube-and-yoke and the mention that the spolas "hangs from the shoulder". It would be easier if it could be translated like "was affixed/closed at the shoulder".
Wolfgang Zeiler
