09-24-2007, 04:41 PM
Quote:So youy do think that the classical linothorax was all linen or all leather,and that this "evolution" and middle step was only for some years in the archaic times?
Sure, I hoped I had made that clear. The plates would account for the box shape and the transition, but I believe that the linothorax became lighter during the 5th century just as the helmets did.
Quote:I dunno about the pteryges.Much later bronze cuirasses had leather or linen pteryges as well,and from different cultures.I don't know if it was part of the evolution,if it ever took place.
Do you have other examples with a greek bell cuirasse? Or are you considering the bronze thorakes that reemerge later? We have to be careful with them since they may be in imitation of the older form and include contemporary elements from the then common linothorax. We must be careful of fashion- think of the renaissance "throrakes"!
Paul M. Bardunias
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