02-12-2010, 12:13 AM
Quote:Macedon:2xdrc690 Wrote: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
It's just an (unfortunately common) mistranslation of thorax; that should read "Alexander gave half-cuirasses (hemithorakia) to the soldiers instead of full cuirasses (thorakes).
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
