Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

One thing that came in mind...Xenophon says "spolades kai thorakes" for the cavalry armour of his troops?Then,what troops is he talking about?There was no cavalry in their original army.There would not be any special cavalry armour,only hoplite armour would be available in the middle of the Persian Empire.And surely hoplite armour cannot be intepreted as bronze muscled cuirasses for the majority!Probably Xenophon as a rich strategos had one of the rare such thoraxes(and thus nearly died running with a shield) but the rest of the thorakes was probably something else.Linen probably-and spolas would have been something else.Also,I don't know what ammount of these hoplites had any body armour at all.And in any way,lines has been "proven" to be very hard armour,so it would be considered heavy armour suitable for the noble cavarly men.This last one is pure guess,but wouldn't you agree?
Geala posted the poet I was refering to,Paul.Alkaios.
Paul(Moderator),I'm a bit confused,shall we continue the discussion as if never interupted? :lol: Well,I should eat my words in any case,for saying I wouldn't continue this debate,but I though that trace of evidence I originally posted,from Xenophon,was new land for investigation.
Khaire
Giannis