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SUMMARY:How Alexander the Great Conquered the World with Glue and Line
 n: Reconstructing Ancient Greek Armor
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gregory Aldrete\n\nFor nearly 1,000 years, one of
  the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean war
 riors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was
  the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Du
 e to the perishable nature of its material, however, no examples have 
 survived, and today it is poorly understood, and is known only through
  fragmentary descriptions in literature and images on pottery and scul
 pture. Employing only the materials and techniques that would have bee
 n available to the ancient Greeks, the UWGB Linothorax Project is inve
 stigating this mysterious armor by reconstruction and wearing examples
  of the linothorax, as well as subjecting test samples to attack with 
 ancient weapons in order to determine the characteristics and protecti
 ve qualities of this type of armor. This presentation will not only de
 scribe the project's findings, but will also display a reconstructed l
 inothorax and test samples for the audience's examination.\n\nGregory 
 Aldrete is Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the Universi
 ty of Wisconsin at Green Bay. His areas of specialization include the 
 city of Rome, daily life in the Roman world, floods and their effect, 
 military history, Roman rhetoric and oratory, and non-verbal communica
 tion. He has received various awards for scholarship and teaching exce
 llence, and has most recently been awarded a grant towards his Linotho
 rax Project on ancient Greek linen body armor. The project website is 
 http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html\n\nFor more information v
 isit http://centralazaia.ning.com/events/how-alexander-the-great
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