06-24-2009, 07:43 AM
Geala/Wolfgang wrote:
Quote:I thought it was made in one piece together with the "tube" which goes around the body, but I haven't studied the construction of this form of cuirass so much yet.There are many variations on greek Tube-and-Yokes,as I'm sure you know, wink: ) and both Yokes as a single piece with the Tube, and separate Yokes are depicted in the iconography.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff