09-08-2010, 01:04 PM
One can take this authenticity thing too far.....for example, apart from 'unknowns' ( such as "Did a Roman bronze razor shave as close as a Gillette?"),the appearance of a genuine 'Roman' would doubtless be sun-tanned and rather more weather-beaten/wrinkled than a modern man, purely from the fact that most spent far more time outdoors ( without the benefits of factor 15 sun-cream !!! ) - one has only to go back a generation or two to see how much more wrinkly/ weather-beaten farmers and sailors looked from living a very different life-style......let alone a time when most lived the 'peasant life' outdoors......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
