05-10-2007, 06:32 PM
Quote:Fine with that but that does not exclude the undergarment option just because som cuirrasses had attachments.
That's true but I don't think there is any real evidence to suggest that undergarments with pteruges attached were worn under cuirasses. I have no doubt in my mind that undergarments were worn to alleviate the strain of wearing a heavy metal cuirass, but I don't think that the pteruges were ever attached to them instead of the cuirass.
Quote:The image is shrunk to fit here. I will try to find a better image on Pereus.
I recall nails in on the hanging paws.
I can see the details fairly clearly but I don't see a single thing that would indicate that it is any kind of animal skin. Where are the claws supposed to be?
Quote:what about those animal capes or leather cape in light troop spartan in osprey, or those that the Shepher wore?
I believe Pollux quoted Sophocles as calling the spolas a leather "thorax," so I doubt that it was some kind of cape.
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
