Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[MeinPanzer]

This is indeed new, at least to me. A note of caution though. "Greek City" could easily refer to a city in Anatolia,( or even Sicily or Italy) and we know from Xenophon that linen thorakes certainly existed in Anatolia.....it is indeed a pity that the reference is so vague, and not to a specific place. All we can say with certainty is that Aeneas Tacticus had heard of linen thorakes......

Even if this reference is to a polis in Ionia, these would be Ionian Greeks using linen cuirasses, and not native Anatolians. That means that we can say more than just that Aeneas had heard of linen thorakes - that means that Greeks somewhere in a Greek city were using them. I think this is a case where a close reading of secondary literature on Aeneas would be fruitful.