From debruces@teleline.es Sun Sep 17 03:27:14 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA53868 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 03:27:12 -0700 Received: from tsmtp1.mail.isp (mailhost.teleline.es [195.235.113.141] (may be forged)) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA03514 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 03:27:10 -0700 Received: from teleline.es ([193.152.250.206]) by tsmtp1.mail.isp (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G110ZH07.YXC for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:26:05 +0200 Message-ID: <39C49B51.C79608E7@teleline.es> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:22:09 +0100 From: "Luis H. Aguilar Polo" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Jason & the Noughts arrive to Spain References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chairete: I am going to waste my share of posts today.... Yesterday in Tele5, brother channel of the Italian one of the same name and owned by the same poor yet honest gentleman (Berlusconi) if I am not misinformed, they showed the first chapter of the series of the subject, I watched it while doing other things but what attracted my attention was the choice of characters, Jason London as Jason seemed to go to draw a candle stick instead of a sword at any given time and Dennis Hopper as Pelias disappointed me, he usually plays the bastard very well, but in this one is like "light"... To keep my post somewhat Classical though a bit simple I may say that in my opinion there is not a single Corinthian helmet straight in the show, all with wielded metal crests,and the ones that aren't Corinthian are just metallic bowls upside down, like if it was a theater play, but in bad, all the show has a gorgeous scent to second hand store in my opinion, aspis are small and hollow, seem weightless and the clothes are almost like the ones in Hercules or Xena, they must think that anything raw/strange seems ancient . A question in case someone is so kind as to take the time and effort to answer me: I was thinking the other day by what I have seen in vases that men in Ancient Greece may have been 99% of them bearded, am I right or wrong? Of the ones that shaved their beards are there any passages in sources or archeological finds of items for shaving which show that custom (perhaps common, I don't know) of shaving or they did it with a dagger, the rough nasty way? Thanks in advance. -- Luis .