Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

For example,in the battle of Plataia,Herodotos tells us that when Masistios fell,the greeks were hitting him to the body massively but could not kill him,until someone realised he was wearing an iron thorax and hit him in the eye

This is good, I had forgotten about this when I asked about iron armor at this date. So we know that iron armor existed, now how do you think this persians armor was constructed? How would you make armor of iron pre 500BC? Could they make a full cuirasse of it or would they have to cobble together smaller plates?

The fact that the Greeks "realized" he was wearing iron armor suggests that this was not completely alien to them, just unexpected.

The armor was scaled.It was not iron but gold.And If I remember,it was worn under his clothes and thus the Greeks could not see it.
Here is the text in Elglish and Greek. 22 [2]http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh9020.htm
It was worn under his "phinikis" red chiton.
Khaire
Giannis