02-21-2006, 08:33 PM
Avete,
With all this experimental archeology going on, I have to ask : might it be presumptous to assume that Roman pteruges had to have a protective effect ? I remember Matthew Amt saying something to the effect that the Romans were slavishly devoted to fashion.
That being the case, could pteruges be merely a purely decorative feature ? Perhaps they merely wanted their attire to hark back to the Hellenistic age for nastalgic reasons ?
With all this experimental archeology going on, I have to ask : might it be presumptous to assume that Roman pteruges had to have a protective effect ? I remember Matthew Amt saying something to the effect that the Romans were slavishly devoted to fashion.
That being the case, could pteruges be merely a purely decorative feature ? Perhaps they merely wanted their attire to hark back to the Hellenistic age for nastalgic reasons ?
Jaime