Linothorax Question

[immortal]

I agree completely that the terminology may be incorrect and that we don't know what part of it was linen and so forth. The point I was making is that Herodotus makes a distinction between 'linen armour' and 'Greek armour' while still making the point that they wore a helmet similar to the Greek ones. If all the armour was the same he would have just said "they were equipped in the Grecian manner" as he does repeatedly with other nations.

As for the scales. The Egyptian cuirass is thought to be the same as the Assyrian one. If the Persians adopted the cuirass of the Egyptians it was probably lamular armour. They of course did use Skythian style armour.... reminants of both have been found at Persepolis.

Anyway, I just thought those passages interesting... it may not add anthing to the debate though.