Always a great pleasure -- I look forward to the pteruges in a few days. ''The glory that was Greece'' (E.A. Poe) is always well worth studying, so I think you were fortunate!
P.S. Two marvellous pieces of Greek pottery showing the spolas or linothorax being put on:
A. Hector departing for the Trojan War, receiving his helmet from Hecuba. Reverse of the ''Three Revellers'' Amphora of Euthymides, c. 510 B.C.E. (and so about sixty-five years older than your source)l kept in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich. This struck me as particularly interesting as it shows the construction of the shift worn under the armour.
B. To my great annoyance I cannot trace this one!
P.S. Two marvellous pieces of Greek pottery showing the spolas or linothorax being put on:
A. Hector departing for the Trojan War, receiving his helmet from Hecuba. Reverse of the ''Three Revellers'' Amphora of Euthymides, c. 510 B.C.E. (and so about sixty-five years older than your source)l kept in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich. This struck me as particularly interesting as it shows the construction of the shift worn under the armour.
B. To my great annoyance I cannot trace this one!
Patrick J. Gray
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
