This is important enough for 2 in the morning.
I love it when I get my Classics news from the Yahoo! homepage. No really. I fucking love it. Apparently, someone found the "oldest" representation of Caesar (that's Gaius Julius, by the by, although the AP doesn't feel the need to clarify that for reasons known only to themselves). Older clearly means "more accurate", so I guess we can all settle the hot-or-not debate once and for all: NOT. Serious case of squash-face.
It could be noted both that this is a ridiculous assumption and the that claim of this bust being the oldest representation of old JC was made by a culture minister. As far as I understand the job of being a culture minister for a European nation entirely involves inflating claims about archaeological finds discovered in that country.
Maybe if I blow the lid off this scandal, I'll get into UPenn!!
It could be noted both that this is a ridiculous assumption and the that claim of this bust being the oldest representation of old JC was made by a culture minister. As far as I understand the job of being a culture minister for a European nation entirely involves inflating claims about archaeological finds discovered in that country.
Maybe if I blow the lid off this scandal, I'll get into UPenn!!