11-22-2007, 10:20 PM
Vishtaspa/Inyigo said:-
...but you are leaving out the rest of the lexica definition...a leopard's skin isn't armour and Xenophon's Hoplites are not wearing animal skins!
To suggest that would be 'special pleading' taken to an extreme
Just because'spolas' has an animal skin root, and can sometimes be used to refer to such does not nulluify the fact that 4th century Hoplites wear Tube-and-Yoke corselets ( or rarely bronze thorakes) and Xenophon calls these spolas......many have tried, but no-one has come up with a plausible alternative to 'Spolas' = Tube-and-Yoke.....
Quote:An animal skin like Heracles' garment hangs from the shoulders too, and Pollux quotes Sophocles saying "lybian spolas: leopard's skin")
...but you are leaving out the rest of the lexica definition...a leopard's skin isn't armour and Xenophon's Hoplites are not wearing animal skins!
To suggest that would be 'special pleading' taken to an extreme
Just because'spolas' has an animal skin root, and can sometimes be used to refer to such does not nulluify the fact that 4th century Hoplites wear Tube-and-Yoke corselets ( or rarely bronze thorakes) and Xenophon calls these spolas......many have tried, but no-one has come up with a plausible alternative to 'Spolas' = Tube-and-Yoke.....
Quote:is to identify spolas with the famous tube and yoke thorax...short of one turning up labelled 'this is a spolas', that cannot happen, can it? Hoplites are shown in Tube-and-Yokes.Xenophon tells us their body armour is called spolades...what more do you want? Surely the overpowering logical conclusion is that the two must be one and the same?
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