Linothorax design/construction

[Duncan Head]

Paul Homer uses the wors "linothoriktos" (aka. linen armor).
Somewhere in this thread has been mentioned the exact verse in ILIAD.
So "linothorax" cannot be a new word.

Yes, Paul himself said that Homer uses the word, in the very message you're replying to!

The point he's making is that no ancient Greek writer uses the word linothorax to mean the classical cuirass with pteryges:

use of this word in connection with the Tube-and-Yoke corselet is a modernism

IIRC Dan's made this point about "the word linothorax [being] used to describe armour not made of linen" before, and it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the argument. In the period we're talking about, the Classical and Hellenistic periods, the word linothorax IS NOT USED AT ALL for Greek armour.