06-10-2007, 02:47 AM
Quote:Quote:Both Connolly and Wary seem to imply in their respective books that quilted linen armor came into fashion around the time of Iphicrates and remained in use at least until 200 BC.
That's pure speculation. If you, or anyone for that matter, can provide me with any evidence of quilted armour being worn in the Hellenistic period, I'd be very happy to see it.
Connolly does show a drawing of an Etruscan urn from 200 BC showing a warrior wearing quilted armor with scales over the shoulders and chest and on a belt covering his stomach.
I want to say that at this stage I am speculating. I am trying to come up with a list of all the possibilities - even the remote ones - and then through research narrow that list down to the most likely options.
Quote:I think you are a bit mixed up here... the Ptolemies were in Egypt, while the Seleucids controlled roughly Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran. But no, the Carthaginians and the Ptolemies shared a border or even borders close to one another, as they were separated by a huge swath of inhospitable desert.
Why yes, yes I was mixed up and now I'm rather embarassed. A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing! :oops: :roll: Ah well - that's why I started a thread to discuss this subject!
So then, while the Carthaginians certainly had access to just about anywhere in the Mediterranean through their merchant fleet, the closest land mass where they would have really been able to observe and perhaps be influenced by a land army is Sicily? Who was romping around on Sicily then?
Quote:Quote:I hope they fix that in the next Thracian book! :lol:
We'll see, as Chris Webber is working on a new one right now, but it won't be published with Osprey.
It is supposed to be much longer than the Osprey book too - I haven't seen anything on when it is due out though, but it's already on the "Books I Need to Buy" list. :lol:
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