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- Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:12 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Linothorax from Pompeii - from RogueClassicism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4225
Re: Linothorax from Pompeii - from RogueClassicism
In the words of John McEnroe; "You cannot be serious!". This is not evidence of any kind for 'linen armour' of any sort!!!!!!!!! It is a single layer of cloth for a start, so far as I can determine. That linen is strong, as Pliny tells, isn't evidence of anything either ! :evil: I have se...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:36 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Linothorax from Pompeii - from RogueClassicism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4225
Re: Linothorax from Pompeii - from RogueClassicism
In the words of John McEnroe; "You cannot be serious!". This is not evidence of any kind for 'linen armour' of any sort!!!!!!!!! It is a single layer of cloth for a start, so far as I can determine. That linen is strong, as Pliny tells, isn't evidence of anything either ! :evil: I have sev...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:15 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The meaning of ‘epiphoras tagmatikas’
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2705
Re: The meaning of ‘epiphoras tagmatikas’
I would agree with all the above......that Alexander had increasing difficulty in persuading troops growing ever more wealthy, cynical and older and wiser to continue ever further from home is surely a given - hence the need to summon the 'Assembly of the Makedones' more frequently and more donative...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:48 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Alexander the Great statuette
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4743
Re: Alexander the Great statuette
I would agree - the left hand statuette has at the very least had a crude restoration of the right arm, if it is not outright "modern" ( by which I mean not 'ancient', since such statuettes in imitation Classical/Hellenistic style go back to the renaissance if not before.) The right-hand s...
- Mon May 03, 2010 8:19 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Mixed Macedonian and Persian Phalanx
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3184
Re: Mixed Macedonian and Persian Phalanx
I seriously doubt the efficacy of such an arrangement - especially against supposed mobile mounted troops such as archers and the like. To thoroughly confuse a timeline, had this formation confronted the Parthians - as did the eponymously named Crassus - they will, in my view, have performed far wo...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:20 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: The Sarissa's Composition: Cornel or Ash?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14495
Re: The Sarissa's Composition: Cornel or Ash?
...A most interesting thread, but I have come late to it and hardly know where to start with regards to a number of probable inaccuracies by various commentators here pertaining to Military Equipment. One paper not thus far referred to here is that of Peter Connolly (whose name is doubtless familiar...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:43 am
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Article by Minor Markle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7632
Re: Article by Minor Markle
.....beware, Scott! Minor Markle is good at presenting evidence and his articles are useful for that, but his opinions are badly flawed ( in my opinion, and of others) and his conclusions often demonstrably inaccurate.......
Paul Mac
Paul Mac