10-20-2013, 02:26 AM
I believe Aulus is referring to the black clad Thespian depiction that led to so many people believing that Thespians wore black into battle. Simply put, there is no evidence that Thespian hoplites wore black, at least not black chitons and cloaks, and certainly not because "they wore black because they knew they would not return", that's utter nonsense. As for black armour, or more specifically, a black linothorax/Type 4/Spolas/composite curaiss, or whatever we're calling it these days, this can be confirmed in the monumental record, whether black leather, or painted/dyed linen, I couldn't say but I suppose either was possible. 
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
