Hairstyles

[tlclark]

tlclark wrote:
Absolutely right, in fact, no matter which monument it is, nearly all Roman enemies look the same, whether Parthian or Celt, they all have the same clothes and hairstyle.

We could say the same about the Romans too.....

Au contraire! As an art historian I learned to appreciate hairstyles very much. They were life-savers during slide tests.

Beards and short hair - early republic or Antonine.

No beards, short hair in loose falling locks - late republican through Augustan.

"Beatles" style mop cuts - Julio claudian

Elaborate piled curls and braids - Flavian women

Crew cuts and stubble - 3rd Century after Caracalla - Soldier Emperors.

Page and bowl cuts - 4th C. through Theodosius

Heavy "helmet hair" wigs and triple forelocks - Severan

The whole thing was a God send to any undergraduate aspiring art historian.

The only thing better was Greek pots, cause the dudes wrote their names all over them.
:wink:

[FAVENTIANVS]

Crew cuts and stubble? What does it mean?

[Dan Diffendale]

Crew cuts and stubble? What does it mean?

Witness: Balbinus and Philip the Arab

[FAVENTIANVS]

Thanks Dan! Interesting look though...

[Maria Iulia]

Maaan, it's amazing what technology is able to reproduce nowadays. Pretty soon they'll probable start cloning actual Romans... :lol:

What I really want to know is, if you clone a Roman will he still have the memory of a Roman or is it wiped clean. If you do not teach him, will he automatically start talking in Latin...?
He has no ancestral heritage in the intermediate 2000 years or so, so his thoughts and instincts should still be that of his previous existance..?
I thought DNA was the ingredient needed to clone, so in theory it should build a perfect replica with all inherited bits and bobs at the time...they are trying to reproduce a mammoth too aren't they...which I am longing to see...!

A cloned Roman in all likelihood would not have any memory of the original's life in any way, including knowledge of Latin. Learned traits are not included in DNA, much the same way a rat that lost a leg would not go on to have 3-legged babies.

Of course, Hollywood loves to imagine that clones do "inherit" memories from their originals. I am unaware of any evidence that would support such an assertion.