05-15-2007, 01:32 AM
Thanks for that Sean, I shall certainly try to find that book.
The main difficulty with the fragment of Alcaeus, and what makes me think the reference might be 'heroic' rather than 'contemporary', is that he lived around 700-650 b.c. ( as I understand it) and tube-and- yoke corselets don't appear in art for another 120-150 years.......plus the style seems awfully 'heroic' to me ( compare, for example, the fragment of Sophocles that refers to 'heroic/Homeric' linen, and chariot poles).
The main difficulty with the fragment of Alcaeus, and what makes me think the reference might be 'heroic' rather than 'contemporary', is that he lived around 700-650 b.c. ( as I understand it) and tube-and- yoke corselets don't appear in art for another 120-150 years.......plus the style seems awfully 'heroic' to me ( compare, for example, the fragment of Sophocles that refers to 'heroic/Homeric' linen, and chariot poles).
"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
