05-17-2010, 01:45 AM
Quote:Are there any finds in say Etruscan times of anything resembling linothorax. I have a THEORY that if it did exist it may have been common in Pre-Roman Italy.I have read that early Roman forces adopted the Greek forces. Wasn't the north of Italy producing flax as well? That would be a good supply of materials. Again this is a "Theory" and I have never made it to Europe so wouldn't know for sure and accept if I am mistaken.
There is solid evidence for the use of linen cuirasses in Italy. Light-coloured and quilted cuirasses appear frequently in Etruscan art, for instance, and Leonidas of Tarentum, writing in the 280's BC, mentions sewn cuirasses captured from the Lucanians.
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
