title: Thorax (disambiguation)
text: # Thorax (disambiguation)
  
  The thorax is the human chest, or division of an animal's body that lies between the head and the abdomen.
  
  Thorax may also refer to:
  
  * The thorax in arthropods, see Thorax (arthropod anatomy)
  * Thorax (θώραξ), the Ancient Greek term for cuirass/breastplate
     * Linothorax, Ancient Greek armour composed of linen
     * Thorakitai, Hellenistic soldiers equipped with mail
  * Thorax porcellana, a species of cockroach
  
  ## People
  
  * Thorax of Larissa, an ancient Greek noble of the 5th century BC
  * Thorax of Lacedaemonia, a Lacedaemonian commander of the late 5th/early 4th century BC
  * Thorax, who commissioned the 10th Pythian Ode of Pindar, in which the names of Thorax and his lover Hippocleas are immortalized
  
  ## Journal
  
  * Thorax (journal). medical journal
  
  ## Geography
  
  * Thorax (Aetolia), a town of ancient Aetolia, Greece
  