11-14-2007, 09:58 PM
Dan wrote:-
You seem to have overlooked the fact that use of this word in connection with the Tube-and-Yoke corselet is a modernism, like 'lorica segmentata'.
This word is never used by contemporary writers such as Herodotus, Thucydides and especially the Military writer and General Xenophon, and there is no mention of Greeks wearing armour of linen at all.
No-one seriously doubts that Homer was describing warriors who wore some sort of linen armour, but it was certainly not a Tube-and-Yoke Classical corselet.
AFIK, the actual word is ONLY used by Homer, and only three times(IIRC) at that. The modern use of the word seems to begin with Peter Connolly...
I think Hypaspist makes a fair point.....Tube-and-Yoke corselets could be made of anything from leather, to composite( re-inforced with scales etc), to solid iron..............but there is zero evidence for the use of linen, if it was used.
I take it we can agree, given what has been said previously, and given Jason's comments, that glued layers of linen is an unlikely option?
Quote:If someone can demonstrate that the word linothorax was used to describe armour NOT made of linen then might have a point.
You seem to have overlooked the fact that use of this word in connection with the Tube-and-Yoke corselet is a modernism, like 'lorica segmentata'.
This word is never used by contemporary writers such as Herodotus, Thucydides and especially the Military writer and General Xenophon, and there is no mention of Greeks wearing armour of linen at all.
No-one seriously doubts that Homer was describing warriors who wore some sort of linen armour, but it was certainly not a Tube-and-Yoke Classical corselet.
AFIK, the actual word is ONLY used by Homer, and only three times(IIRC) at that. The modern use of the word seems to begin with Peter Connolly...
I think Hypaspist makes a fair point.....Tube-and-Yoke corselets could be made of anything from leather, to composite( re-inforced with scales etc), to solid iron..............but there is zero evidence for the use of linen, if it was used.
I take it we can agree, given what has been said previously, and given Jason's comments, that glued layers of linen is an unlikely option?
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