10-23-2007, 12:29 PM
Hi yes it has been a while and the book does slowley drag on, Two small children and am a high school baby sitter (i would never in my wildest dream refer to it as teaching) so the research has gone slow.
The leather / Linen argument always comes back to the point of where did the ancients ever write "leather armour", im am not doubting that itwas used as a backing for scaled armour and as such the many depictions of scaled linothorax armour may indeed be leather. The shoulder peice looking fragment held by the Asmolean museum looks to be such an item.
The ancient greeks wrote about armour made of linen around the same time as all the vase pictures were produced, yes this can never be definative but the odds are pretty stong that the linen armour that they are talking about is what we know today as the linothorax
PS i would attach pictures of the frescos but i cant work the insert image thing out!
The leather / Linen argument always comes back to the point of where did the ancients ever write "leather armour", im am not doubting that itwas used as a backing for scaled armour and as such the many depictions of scaled linothorax armour may indeed be leather. The shoulder peice looking fragment held by the Asmolean museum looks to be such an item.
The ancient greeks wrote about armour made of linen around the same time as all the vase pictures were produced, yes this can never be definative but the odds are pretty stong that the linen armour that they are talking about is what we know today as the linothorax
PS i would attach pictures of the frescos but i cant work the insert image thing out!
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Maya Angelou
