03-08-2009, 09:41 PM
Quote:So if we believe Pollux's citation of Xenophon, one definition of the spolas would seem to be a tube and yoke style armor made from animal skin (rawhide/leather). This is excellent. Consider me converted
Again, Pollux's definition probably only refers to the word's use in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, but this is exactly the period in which there is little other evidence and this debate often becomes most heated and conjectural. Paul posted this quote some time ago, but it always seems to disappear in these discussions. We should really get at the very least a single post summarizing all the literary and archaeological evidence known so that whenever this discussion inevitably pops up again, it can be pointed to.
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
