05-08-2007, 08:13 AM
Apparently some members of RAT can't read properly, or else don't understand what they read! :roll:
I have referred to the evidence both here, and to the references in the other threads (e.g. by Duncan Head). To suggest otherwise is simply to refuse to be open-minded. I repeat, can any one come up with some direct evidence for linen hoplite tube-and-yoke cuirasses ( linothorax is clearly inappropriate, since the term was long obsolete when this type of cuirass appears? )
Hi, Jason ! I agree with your post entirely (almost)! and I guess on the evidence you will have to abandon the use of the inappropriate archaic term 'linothorax' in your thesis/book !
When I opined my "heresy" ( not really heresy at all, if you are prepared to look at the evidence), I hoped that there might be something new out there, but apparently not. Certainly no"Rosetta Stone" !
I am in the process of summarising the current state of knowledge on this subject and will (hopefully) post it in due course.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
I have referred to the evidence both here, and to the references in the other threads (e.g. by Duncan Head). To suggest otherwise is simply to refuse to be open-minded. I repeat, can any one come up with some direct evidence for linen hoplite tube-and-yoke cuirasses ( linothorax is clearly inappropriate, since the term was long obsolete when this type of cuirass appears? )
Hi, Jason ! I agree with your post entirely (almost)! and I guess on the evidence you will have to abandon the use of the inappropriate archaic term 'linothorax' in your thesis/book !
When I opined my "heresy" ( not really heresy at all, if you are prepared to look at the evidence), I hoped that there might be something new out there, but apparently not. Certainly no"Rosetta Stone" !
I am in the process of summarising the current state of knowledge on this subject and will (hopefully) post it in due course.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff