08-20-2010, 08:59 AM
Without wishing to open a can of worms, that assertion is debateable at the very least.....others test results do not agree with your findings, unfortunately.
Even if true, the performance of a hypothetical glued linen Tube-and-Yoke is most assuredly not evidence of the existence of same in a Greek context ( though of course some sort of 'thorakes lineoi' certainly existed in Anatolia and the near East in Classical times - but there is no evidence whatever that these were glued linen, still less that they were 1 cm thick.) :?
Even if true, the performance of a hypothetical glued linen Tube-and-Yoke is most assuredly not evidence of the existence of same in a Greek context ( though of course some sort of 'thorakes lineoi' certainly existed in Anatolia and the near East in Classical times - but there is no evidence whatever that these were glued linen, still less that they were 1 cm thick.) :?
"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
