Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Anthony and Queen Victoria!!!!!!?????

We are NOT amused
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11 comments:

Tecumseh said...

A study of a 2,000-year-old silver coin found the Egyptian queen, famously portrayed by a sultry Elizabeth Taylor, had a shallow forehead, pointed chin, thin lips and sharp nose. On the other side, her Roman lover, played in the 1963 movie by Richard Burton, Taylor's husband at the time, had bulging eyes, a hook nose and a thick neck.

Except for that, they were adorable! Oh, well, here goes another myth. Life is a bitch.

2/14/2007 5:13 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Ah, yes, Art History trying to trump history proper, the written texts and all.

Art Historians are really grabbing for anything to create controversy these days. I guess I would too if I belonged to a superfluous discipline.

AA always has some interesting things to say about these studies.

2/14/2007 5:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Here's proof that this story is entirely bogus. Antonio Adamo is famous for his commitment to thorough historic research, I'll have you know.

2/14/2007 11:11 PM
Mr roT said...

Pepe--dead link! What're you talking about? This?

2/15/2007 1:40 AM
Anonymous said...

link works for me but yes of course !

2/15/2007 4:56 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Why is it I've learned to never click on any of JJ's or Pepe's links while at my office computer?...

2/15/2007 9:18 AM
Anonymous said...

mft - the link was rather safe. why is it that you chose to play the feature is the question.

2/15/2007 9:42 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

"play the feature"? Too ambiguous, too obtuse. Explain.

Or maybe I'm just not on the same page (need more coffee).

2/15/2007 12:27 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

And back to this Cleopatra and Caesar argument: it's just a bit difficult to believe that a man who was as dictatorial and obsessed with power would be wooed by what is symbolized by the coin. 1.) different strokes for different folks; or 2.) our contemporaries have different standards of what "beauty" means today, and what it meant back then; or 3.) it was a shitty and inaccurate minting and portrait.

Provincials minted all sorts of coins throughout the Roman Empire that were never approved by Caesar Augustus. These illegal provincial coins served to symbolize the desire of the provincials to be attached to the idea of the Roman Empire (or so a couple have made the argument).

2/15/2007 12:32 PM
Anonymous said...

"play the feature"? Too ambiguous, too obtuse. Explain.

the movie Cleopatra.

2/15/2007 1:19 PM
Anonymous said...

In other words, as long as you just went to that link at work, you would have probably been safe as that page was trather inocuous. But if you started spanking the monkey while watching the movie and you adviser/PI sprang up on you, i decline all responsibility for the impact on your carreer.

2/15/2007 3:07 PM

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