05-22-2007, 03:05 AM
Quote:Yeah, I could maybe see that...but anything that is stiff in any way shape or form, including linen or hardened leather is going to chaffe you. You're going to need something under it to prevent that. Not to mention my above points, which are somewhat life and death circumstances.
The tunic worn underneath would prevent chafing. There's no reason to think that they found it necessary to wear extra padding underneath because reenactors feel the need to do so today.
Quote:Really? I thought earlier in this thread (if I'm not mistaken), that there was extant evidence for linen's easier availability for the use of armour.
Earlier in the thread it was established that in some areas of western Greece, linen was grown in some quantity in the Mycenaean period. However, the area suitable for growing linen in Greece was quite limited and we don't know how much/where it was grown in the Classical period. Wealthy poleis like Athens no doubt traded for it from Egypt, but that would mean that it probably wasn't all that cheap or plentiful.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
