02-11-2010, 09:21 PM
Quote: Alexander changed the coat of mail into a breast-plate: which was a protection to them, as long as they boldly faced the enemy: but if they fled, they exposed to the foe their naked backs.
Coat of mail?
hock: did the phalangites use chainmail?? I thought it only appeared on greek context in some troops as thorakitai, later on the IInd century BC
Javier Sanchez
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