The linothorax (/ ˈliːnoʊθɔːræks /, from the Ancient Greek: λινοθώραξ, Ancient Greek: [linotʰɔ̌ːraːks]) is a type of upper body armor that was used throughout the ancient Mediterranean world.

2019年9月22日 · The Linothorax (Greek: λινοθώρακας) was a popular form of body armour in the 5th and 4th century BC, gradually replacing the bronze bell cuirass from the 6th century onwards. It is extensively seen in pottery around the time of the Persian Wars, and continued to be popular into the Hellenistic period.

The Linothorax/Spolas (Tube and Yoke Body Armor) By Andrew Yamato. Despite its ubiquity in ancient art, the “tube & yoke” style of Greek body armor remains mysterious and highly controversial.

Today, the linothorax is only known through 65 descriptions of linen armor from 40 different ancient authors and approximately 1,000 visual images in vase paintings, tomb paintings, mosaics, and bronze and stone sculptures.

2013年8月20日 · While the written evidence for the widespread use of the linothorax (or some variant of it) is quite extensive – the authors identify at least sixty five distinct references, by more than forty different ancient writers, to linen armor used by cultures all across the ancient Mediterranean world from the Archaic Age to the Roman Empire ...

In this first installment, Ganor investigates the famed linen armor of Ancient Greece, known as the linothorax. Did the Greeks pioneer their own version of composite materials long before the Space Age?

There is no mystery associated with the linothorax—the sources and the iconography offer abundant details that allow us to understand it. Examples can be documented archaeologically from their metal parts, but its evolution can only be traced through the images depicting it.

2021年4月9日 · Apparently, the composite organic armor that depicted to this very mosaic is a Linothorax type of military defensive gear, a wide spread typical Greek body armor worn by Greeks at least from the middle of the 6th century BC.

2015年9月8日 · The armour predominantly used by the Greeks during these wars was the linothorax. This article will examine this type of armour explain how it was manufactured look at the questions we still have about the linothorax and …

The linothorax is a modern term conventionally used to describe a type of upper body armor used by the Ancient Greeks, as well as other civilizations, from the Mycenaean Period through the Hellenistic Period.