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    Default Linothorax and Bronze Cuirass

    Can anyone please tell me when the Linothorax replaced the Bronze Cuirass as standard armour for Greek heavy infantry? I ask because on the front cover of my copy of Xenophon there is a photograph of a Hoplite depicted on a vase. The picture depicts him wearing a bronze cuirass yet I have seen depictions of Hoplites from the Peloponnesian War wearing a linothroax. I always assumed the Linothorax was a superior form of armour or is this not the case?
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