More glue - bah

[Dan Howard]

At this point I may just be beating a dead horse, but if we are going to get into this discussion, then I would ask why you based your research on the use of linen armour among the Greeks and accepted the use of leather as only "a possibility," when the body of evidence, when examined with the criterion provided in your statement above ("simply listing what other cultures wore for protection, and applying that to the Greeks etc., does not count") in mind, clearly points to leather cuirasses being the norm, with perhaps the occasional use of linen?

To summarize the earlier discussions: most of the evidence for Greek linen armour dates to the Mycenaean period. During the Classical/Hellenistic period virtually all the evidence points to the Greeks using leather, not linen. All of the commonly cited sources for linen armour during this time period are not from a Greek context, but further east. The only surviving linen example that is intact enough to identify as body armour was recently found at the Mycenaean dig at Patras. It will be interesting to learn whether it was quilted or glued. I would bet money that it turns out to be quilted.