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Updated: June 14, 2025
No mortal ever dreamt that this was so till Reichel tried to make out that the original poet describes no armour except the large Mycenaean shield and the mitre, and that all corslets in the poems were of much later introduction. Possibly they were, but they had plenty of time wherein to be evolved long before the eighth century, Reichel's date for corslets.
It is possible to write down the names of fifty professors in great seats of learning who have examined and endorsed these facts, and the list would include many of the greatest intellects which the world has produced in our time Flammarion and Lombroso, Charles Richet and Russel Wallace, Willie Reichel, Myers, Zollner, James, Lodge, and Crookes.
But why did men who were interpolating bronze corslets freely introduce bronze so seldom, if at all, as the material of greaves? Evans calls "the Procrustean method" of Dr. Reichel. A curious feature about the spear may be noticed. No butt-spikes have been found in graves of the Mycenaean prime.
Was the mitre a separate article or a continuation of the breastplate, lower down, struck by a dropping arrow? In 1883 Mr. At this time, in days before Reichel, Mr. On the corslet, as we have seen, Mr. Leaf now writes as a disciple of Reichel. But as to the mitre, he rejects Helbig's and Mr. Ridgeway's opinion that it was a band of metal a foot wide in front and very narrow behind.
Myres and Reichel say that the secondary sense of THOREX is not breastplate but "body clothing," as if a man were all breast, or wore only a breast covering, whereas Mycenaean art shows men wearing nothing on their breasts, merely drawers or loin-cloths, which could not be called THOREX, as they cover the antipodes of the breast.
Naturally, the men throw over themselves their fur coverlets; but Nestor, a chilly veteran, prefers a chiton and a wide, double-folded, fleecy purple cloak. We hear more of such bed- coverings in the Odyssey than in the merely because in the ODYSSEY we have more references to beds and to people in bed. If the poet knew so little as Reichel supposed his omission of corslets is explained.
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