05-12-2007, 03:13 PM
Quote:Herodotus ... speaks of Assyrians wearing a ‘linen corselet’ and Caspians and Sarangians in ‘leather jackets’ (7.60-69).I like your "leather jackets", Paul. But Herodotus actually says "animal skins" (7.67: sisurnas). I'm still looking for this elusive evidence for leather armour!
Paullus Scipio\\n[quote]Pollux, in his ’Onomastikon’ at (4.70) quotes Sophocles as saying “ the Spolas is a ‘thorakes’(i.e. body armour) made of leather, which hangs from the shouldersâ€