Linothroax Bibliography

[Dan Howard]

Dr Williams "The Knight and the Blast Furnace" did some empirical testing on hardened leather and layered linen. Layered linen performed far better. This is consistent with my own impromptu testing. You need a significantly higher weight of leather to get it to provide a similar degree of protection as layered linen. I wouldn't use the term "linothorax" though. There are a few threads here demonstrating that there is little to suggest that the Greeks ever used this word to describe linen armour. Just call it "layered linen".