Armor in the late fifth century bc.

[Paullus Scipio]

PS. Ahaa!!! You have missed the point which means our strategy worked!

Hey, lets confuse the new guy!

So that's how it is going to be, huh? :lol: (kidding of course)

Thanks so much for your response guys, does anyone have anything to add?

That's O.K.!....now you have as much information as anyone. I would like to emphasise one very good point that Giannis made. Archaeology paints a rather different picture to funeral stele, in that there are very few muscled cuirasses found in a Greek context ( and that may be a false picture too if the bronze was 'recycled'. We only have the South Italian examples because of their considerate funeral custom of placing armour and belongings in tombs!) Among the Ten thousand, as Xenophon records, and Giannis points out, there were fewer than 50 such cuirasses. That army was as big as even a large city-state could field.
So do you think Sekunda is right to suggest, based on a fashion in funeral stele, that the bronze cuirass was popular in Athens from the 360's?
Or should we perhaps bear in mind that on your funeral stele, you could have any panoply you liked, even if you could never have afforded it in life?

More confusion??? :? ? lol: