Quote Originally Posted by Titus Marcellus Scato View Post
When you say 'Greeks', I assume you mean 'southern Greeks'? Athenians, Spartans, Epirotes, Corinthians, Thebans etc.

Not including Macedonians, Thessalians, or Thracians, who weren't considered 'Greek' by the Athenians, but Hellenised barbarians - or the later Seleucids, Ptolemies, Baktrians, etc, who aren't 'Greek' either but 'Hellenic'.
Well, tehre's a difference between greek and Hellens. Greek is a people, Hellen is a culture. if greeks (like you like to say, southern greeks) didn't wear linothorax armour, that means that greeks didn't wear linothorax armour, but that hellenized population did.