New Yorker Article on Linothorax armor

[grahambriggs]

Try here to at the professor's website:

http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html

No sources given and no scientific rigour. So I conclude that you could make this of linen and it might help, but that says nothing about what the armour was actually made of. Or whether if you were in the front rank of the phalanx and so had three spearpoint coming at you with malice whether it would protect you.