More glue - bah

[Paullus Scipio]

Scott wrote:

You missed the point again. Both passages speak of lamination techniques.

...I, and doubtless everyone else, didn't miss the point at all.....you are trying to say that because 'lamination' was known ( from mummies! ), it could have been used in ancient Classical Greece....that is about as far removed from actual evidence as it is possible to get ! :roll:

Incidently, it is likely that later 'aspides' were also 'laminated' like 'scuta'....but that, of course, like Polybius, is long after Tube-and-Yoke corselets became the norm...

Nowhere did I mention body armor.

...so no connection then? I'd agree with that! Egyptian mummy practices are no evidence of laminated glued body armour in Classical Greece! So what was the point of referring to it?

Likewise, giving a poet armor to keep him warm would seem odd to the audience I would think (it at least sounds highly peculiar to myself). I could be wrong, maybe priest's "slaves" walk around in leather armor???

...is there a point to this? It seems we are agreed now that priests are nothing to do with anything, and that the reference in the play is more likely to be to the older meaning of animal skin ( see my earlier post).
BTW, you've still got it wrong - Pistheitaros is not a priest!.....as you said...

Please read carefully before responding.

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