05-09-2007, 05:36 PM
Quote:Lets add the new evidence of the fragment from Sophocles, Epigoni which
includes the lines:
Speaker B: "And the helmets are shaking their purple-dyed crests, and for the wearers of breast-plates the weavers are striking up the wise shuttle's songs, that wakes up those who are asleep."
I've never seen the actual Greek for this passage, but I don't see how it provides any evidence of textile armour. All it says is that the weavers are weaving for the wearers of thorakes; it doesn't necessarily imply that they are actually weaving thorakes, just that they are weaving for those wearing thorakes.
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
