06-12-2008, 09:38 AM
I don't like Wikipedia much either. Nearly all of their Ancient China articles are downright wrong. It's always the first to come up on search engines, though... You can always count on it for that...
Good man, Conal. Looking forward to those books... A most fascinating subject, especially with the current popularity of the "almost similar to pankration" modern MMA competitions.
I do remember reading somewhere, though, that Myrmex was an additional piece that you fastened to your Caestus and that it was a big ol' spike-like apparatus for the creation of puncture wounds. When I find that reading I will list it here.
Good man, Conal. Looking forward to those books... A most fascinating subject, especially with the current popularity of the "almost similar to pankration" modern MMA competitions.
I do remember reading somewhere, though, that Myrmex was an additional piece that you fastened to your Caestus and that it was a big ol' spike-like apparatus for the creation of puncture wounds. When I find that reading I will list it here.
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[size=75:1yb0q5t8]"All I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates[/size]
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