From jan.gabbert@wright.edu Sun Sep 17 08:18:22 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA39682 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:18:22 -0700 Received: from mailserv.wright.edu (mailserv.wright.edu [130.108.128.60]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA10503 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:18:21 -0700 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V5.2-33 #39224) id <0G1100M01EIK4O@mailserv.wright.edu> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wright.edu (m134095.wright.edu [130.108.134.95]) by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V5.2-33 #39224) with ESMTP id <0G1100K8FEIJE7@mailserv.wright.edu> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:17:49 -0400 From: jan gabbert Subject: Re: Jason & the Noughts arrive to Spain To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: <39C4E09C.395EE3D3@wright.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <39C49B51.C79608E7@teleline.es> You're right about the beards. Alexander the Great should have begun to sport a beard around 338 BC or so, as he achieved manhood. He started the 'fashion' of being clean-shaven which generally held until Hadrian 500 years later. I've seen pictures of archaeological remains [and vase paintings, pictures] of pretty good straight razors, not too crude at all, it seems. Can't site a source at the moment. jan gabbert .