10-06-2006, 10:13 AM
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Once again, take their statuettes and paintings from the era we have (although I won't deny, they are few fewer in number than those of another polis, despite their artistic "Golden Age" approximately fifty years prior). For almost any other state between 500-479, you'll notice that linothorax is dominant in their paintings, while it isn't for the Spartans. Instead, everything we have has bronze cuirasses, of which the other states (as an exaggerated guess, 99%) had now abandoned using.
that dosen't mean they didn't use linothorax. They could have seen bronze cuirasses as more heroic then linothorax. So they have all they're heros dressed in bronze to help glorify them
Why didn't the other Greeks do it, then?
The Spartans did not have a habit of drawing their soldiers naked like other Greeks... furthermore, bell bronze cuirasses looked more 'goofy' than 'heroic', if you ask me. :lol:
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