09-13-2007, 11:58 PM
Quote:How does one dismiss the description of linen armour by Pausanias?
No-one is dismissing Pausanias( see my previous post, written before yours), but up until now we had been trying to confine the examination to contemporary sources,rather than later ones ( see earlier posts). Seemingly Thucydides doesn't refer to body armour, though I haven't been through him with a fine-toothed comb recently!
Has anyone else ?
For the sake of completeness, let us look at what Pausanias, writing in the second century A.D says at I.21.7 of his “Description of Greeceâ€
"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