Linothorax design/construction

[Vishtaspa]

Paul, I find your summary in leather's thread superb.

But perhaps Sophocles' Epigonoi passage mustn't be discarded at all, we must be always careful regardindg greek tragic playwriters, in them we find a mixture of archaism and anachronism (just as we can see in vase painting mythilogical scenes, gods and heroes depicted in contemporaneus dress and armour. Also amazons are depicted ususally as persians or asians).

The reference of chariot (harmatos, as reads the fragment) is very homeric, but textile armour isn't very homeric at all (only two references to linothorex in the whole homeric corpus, for sure rare exceptions of concrete heroes, like Ayax Oileus), more homeric is bronze armour, shiny armour. An anachronism perhaps? a reference of usages from autor's days, like many times in tragedy, mixed with archaisms?

I know that this debate is old, and very discussed in this and leather threads, so I hope not to repeat things.

Regards