10-13-2009, 05:57 AM
Quote:The references:
Alcaeus (2.19); Cassius Dio (78.7.1-2); 'Chronicle of Lindos' (29, lines 36-39); Cornelius Nepos 'Iphicrates' (1.3-4); Herodotus (2.182; 3.47; possibly 1.135); Homer 'Iliad' (2.529; 2.830); Livy (4.20.1-7; 9.40.3); Pausanias (1.8; 1.21.9; 6.19.7); Pliny 'Natural History' (19.2); Plutarch 'Alexander' (32); Silius Italicus 'Punica' (4.223; 9.586-598); Strabo 'Geography' (3.3.6; 13.1.10); Suetonius (19.1); Xenophon 'Anabasis' (4.7.16; 7.63); Xenophon 'Cyropaedia' (6.4.2).
OK, only 23 individual references and not "two dozen" as I stated earlier, but close enough (24 if you include the reference from Herodotus (1.135) that the linen armor originated in Egypt).
Our work has not been published yet. We hope to have this done very soon, though. In January we will be presenting once again at the annual meeting of the APA/AIA in Anaheim, CA (January 6-9).
You could round this list out to an even two dozen by adding Aeneas Tacticus 29.1-4 from earlier in this thread, which is perhaps the only unequivocally Greek mention of linen thorakes in the whole list.
By the way, I will likely be attending the APA/AIA meeting this year, so I hope to be able to attend your presentation and maybe make a little report to post here, if you wouldn't mind.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
