11-18-2009, 06:48 PM
Quote:The topic of painted armor brings to mind this quote from Xenophon on Agiselaos's preperations for war in Asia. The tanslator has used "weapons" for the greek term "hopla," but I think it is clear that armor is being made as well from the list of craftsmen.
Hellenica 3.4.1
[17] In fact, he made the entire city, where he was staying, a sight worth seeing; for the market was full of all sorts of horses and weapons, offered for sale, and the copper-workers, carpenters, smiths, leather-cutters, and painters were all engaged in making martial weapons, so that one15 might have thought that the city was really a workshop of war.
[17] axian de kai holên tên polin+ en hêi ên [tên Epheson] theas epoiêsen: hê te gar agora ên mestê pantodapôn kai hippôn kai hoplôn ôniôn, hoi te chalkotupoi kai hoi tektones kai hoi chalkeis kai hoi skutotomoi kai hoi zôgraphoi pantes polemika hopla kateskeuazon, hôste tên polin ontôs oiesthai polemou ergastêrion einai.
Now for a question that is sure to start another arguement. What profession is conspicuously absent from that list?hock:
Nice find! A little more evidence for the predominance of leather armour in the 4th c. BC...
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
