[4] Ferdiad, in the Old Irish Tain Bo Cualgne, also drags a dead man by his chariot wheels.
[5] R.G.E. p. 118. Ajax, 1031. Euripides, Andromache, 399.
[6] Iliad, vi. 37-65, xi. 122-147.
[7] Iliad, xi. 100, ii. 416.
[8] Ibid. xiii. 439, 440. That the bronze tunic is a softening of the sense by a late interpolator is not very likely, for Homer, we have seen, represents a warrior as cutting off a dead man's hands and head; and if he does not shirk this, if no later hand corrects him, why should he strain at tearing a chiton? Miss Stawell ingeniously remarks that the chiton-tearing is a proof of the prevalent use of corslet? If men fought without corslets, the chiton "must always have been getting torn in the mêlée, whatever the warrior's fate. But the sign would have been unmistakable if the tunic was usually covered by the corslet and could not be torn until that was taken off...." (Homer and the Iliad, p. 211). But, I fear, Homeric warriors did not come to such close quarters as at Rugby football.
[9] Iliad, xvi. 702, 703.
[10] See "Homeric Tactics."
[11] For details and discussion, see "Homeric Armour and Costume."
[12] Iliad, v. 193-205.
[13] On stone and bronze arrow-heads, see Tsountas and Manatt, p. 209.