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Heroic Haircuts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John Boardman
John Boardman
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Merton College, Oxford
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In C.Q,. xxii (1972), 199 Professor R. G. Austin has drawn attention to the short at the front, unusually long at the back. It must be related to that other heroic ‘long back and sides’, the Theseis, which is described by Plutarch (Thes. 5) who compares Homer's Abantes Il. 2. 542, and adds by way of explanation that the custom was not learnt from the Arabes, as some think, nor from the Mysians (which incidentally explains Hector), but because the Abantes liked close combat and short front hair denied their adversaries a hand hold. The same explanation probably serves the Hectorean hair style.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , December 1973 , pp. 196 - 197
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1973

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page 196 note 1 See also W. Bremer in R.E. s.v. ‘Haar. tracht’, 2120, where the Hectorean style explained, wrongly in the light of Professor Austin's note, as for hair brushed up and back from the forehead.

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