Thorax (disambiguation)
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Thorax can refer to a number of things:
- ThoraxThoraxThe thorax is a division of an animal's body that lies between the head and the abdomen.-In tetrapods:...
, a division of an animal's body that lies between the head and the abdomen. - Thorax Ancient Greek armour , see LinothoraxLinothoraxThe linothorax was a type of upper body armor used by the Ancient Greeks, as well as other civilizations, from the Mycenaean Period through the Hellenistic Period. The earliest attested account of a linothorax used for battle is recorded in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad . It is worn by Ajax the lesser...
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People
- Thorax of LarissaThorax of LarissaThorax of Larissa in Thessaly was a member of the powerful family of the Aleuadae. He was a son of an Aleuas who was a friend of the poet Simonides....
, an ancient Greek noble of the 5th century BC - Thorax of LacedaemoniaThorax of LacedaemoniaThorax of Lacedaemonia is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus as acting under Spartan commander Callicratidas during his operations in Lesbos in 405 BC, and as having been commissioned by him, after the capture of Mithymna, to conduct the heavy-armed troops to Mytilene...
, a Lacedaemonian commander of the late 5th/early 4th century BC. - Thorax, who commissioned the 10th Pythian Ode of PindarPindarPindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...
, in which the names of Thorax and his lover Hippocleas are immortalized. See Pederastic couples in classical antiquity.