06-23-2009, 10:30 AM
I like these discussions very much although many many things sound very very familiar. :wink: But always something new appeared and is worth the effort.
The congress sounds interesting. Some questions spring to my mind. Strange to hear about the devotion to the cavalry while many (seemingly) hoplite warriors in the 5th c. BC were depicted on vases with tube-and-yoke armour. Why were the Greeks around Xenophon in Asia Minor able to use peltasts if Iphikrates just introduced them some years later?
To quilted cuirasses: Some but few Greek vase paintings show it relatively clearly, at least in my humble opinion.
To leather: there is, beneath of course the famous and often cited two lexica of late antiquity about spolades, also a reference (I know it only second-handed) to a finding which was intepreted as part of a leather armour of the 8th c. BC, so I would not say that we have less "evidence" for leather than for linen. We have indeed no evidence for nothing and the nice opportunity to discuss it further and further and so avoid boredom.
The congress sounds interesting. Some questions spring to my mind. Strange to hear about the devotion to the cavalry while many (seemingly) hoplite warriors in the 5th c. BC were depicted on vases with tube-and-yoke armour. Why were the Greeks around Xenophon in Asia Minor able to use peltasts if Iphikrates just introduced them some years later?
To quilted cuirasses: Some but few Greek vase paintings show it relatively clearly, at least in my humble opinion.
To leather: there is, beneath of course the famous and often cited two lexica of late antiquity about spolades, also a reference (I know it only second-handed) to a finding which was intepreted as part of a leather armour of the 8th c. BC, so I would not say that we have less "evidence" for leather than for linen. We have indeed no evidence for nothing and the nice opportunity to discuss it further and further and so avoid boredom.
Wolfgang Zeiler
