If you like Hector you may have heard of a scholion to a passage of Lycophron's Alexandra that states that Hector wore his hair in what we'd call a mullet:
"Hectorian hair is said to be that which is long at the back and cut short at the front as this Lycophron says."
Scholion 1133 Ad Lycophronem
Now, the original passage refers to the Daunians, the inhabitants of the northernmost part of Apulia in southeastern Italy:
But the chiefs of the Daunians shall build for me a shrine on the banks of the Salpe, and those also who inhabit the city of Dardanus, beside the waters of the lake. And when girls wish to escape the yoke of maidens, refusing for bridegrooms men adorned with locks such as Hector wore, but with defect of form or reproach of birth, they will embrace my image with their arms, winning of mighty shield against marriage, having clothed them in the garb of the Erinyes and dyed their faces with magic simples. By those staff-carrying women I shall long be called an immortal goddess.
Lycophron's Alexandra, v.1122+
This passage is a valuable resource to examine how the Greeks viewed the Daunians in general, but for the purposes of this post it, together with Greek and native Apulian art, can show us almost exactly what this hairstyle would've looked like! (Dump incoming under the cut lol)
In general, our understanding of Daunian men's hairstyles is cloudy due to the schematic nature of Daunian art, where women are often depicted with a long braid whereas men aren't represented with any hair. Here's some examples from Iron Age Daunian stelae.
As you can see, earlier Daunian art doesn't give us much information. Here are some much later IV/III century Daunian tomb frescos from when the area was more Hellenized and Daunian art got more figurative:
As you can see, the Daunians depicted in frescos roughly contemporary with Lycophron's writing correspond pretty accurately to the image painted by the scholion. The Daunian men of this time seem to have worn their hair in a "mullet", like the other native peoples of Apulia, collectively dubbed "Iapygians" by the Greeks. Here are some examples of Apulian natives in Greek red-figure pottery:
Note the distinctly Italic clothing as well as the bronze belts, which you can also see in the stelae above and which they share with other pre-Roman Italic peoples outside of Apulia (you can read up on that here). The last image is a particularly good example to show the contrast between the Greek and the native "style". Below is a fresco from the famous "Tomba delle Danzatrici", from Ruvo di Puglia.
Now, back to Hector lol. If you like the guy you have no doubt seen this Apulian vase painting:
As much as I love it, I'm afraid it might not be Hector after all :(. This scene not only depicts the two warriors with the signature native clothing as seen in earlier examples, it also represents a particularly popular scene in Greek art for a native Italic market: the return/departure of the warrior, often accompanied by libations, as seen in the first two examples above and in the following couple of pictures.
Interestingly, though I have seen the Jatta Museum (where the vase in question is stored) suggest the identification of the scene with that of the Iliad before, it also suggests that the father of the child is actually the man on the left (who gets cut out of the pic most of the time lol), pointing out the similarities in his and the kid's clothes. It also identifies the helmet in "Hector"'s hand as a Chalcidian helmet, clearly extraneous to the otherwise characteristically Italic elements of the scene, and thus interpreted as war loot from the Greek settlers in the region.
Now, this doesn't mean this can't be Hector, Andromache and Astyanax, but it definitely doesn't seem to be the most likely case. BUT! In a weird roundabout way we learned how Lycophron might've pictured Hector's hairstyle, even if that isn't him on the vase! Funny how that works huh, one of the most famous would-be depictions of Hector might not be him but it just so happens it depicts the hairstyle a source mentions the Daunians having taking after him because the vase was produced near Daunia!
Anyways, sorry for the long post , I hope this made sense at least lmao
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Idk if something like this is already a thing but we need to make a website like hittitemonuments.com but for aegean frescos, an interactive map to look through them all. I think it would be cool
Tbh as dumb as it sounds I would've taken Nolan's Odysseus going "I'm odysseyin' all over those guys" or "together, we are The Odyssey" or something like that over "our age of bronze is collapsing" because that one is dumb and also explicitly sets the movie in the bronze age while the characters are dressed in beige rags, matte black plastic armors and bulletproof vests. I cannot take you seriously when you talk about the sea peoples while you and your world looks like that
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I'm currently working on a banner for Selene's page on the Epithet Database, a website created by @ace-angelicpagan that collects the epithets of the Theoi.
A database of all the epithets for the greek gods!
At the moment, I'm colouring over an Attic red-figure kylix from around 490–480 BC depicting Selene. It's been a lot of fun, but one of the trickier parts has been trying to adapt details from the original vase painting, especially the horse leads. I'm trying to reinterpret them so they make sense with the anatomy and movement of the horses in my version, and it's something I'm still working through.
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controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i'm going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i've "been meaning to do" that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could've decided to sit down and watch it, and i did not. how many more decades will slip by like this? conceivably, it could be all the decades i have left. watching the Emoji Movie would not be, after all, a crucial use of my time. much better things to do. i could easily postpone it over and over and over until my final breath where it may not even register to me that i never did watch the Emoji Movie. no great loss, certainly; and yet i find myself intrigued by Patrick Stewart's involvement
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The one thing that frustrates me about how much impact that one female plaster head with rosettes have had for how people draw Myceaean-era inspired myth art, is the fact that people think the white skin of the face is meant to be makeup.
It's not.
It's just artistic/aesthetic convention of how women were painted.
You see it more clearly on full-length (whether they've survived in full or in pieces) frescoes. Any exposed skin of a female figure, at whatever age or if it's even meant to be a living person represented, from the top of her head down to her toes, is painted chalk white.