How Alexander the Great Conquered the World with Glue and Linen: Reconstructing Ancient Greek Armor at ASU Tempe Campus, Business Administration C Wing, Room 116
March 11, 2010 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Speaker: Gregory AldreteFor nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due 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 sculpture. Employing only the…See More
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