Ok, so this is not the most important piece of mythic research of all time... in fact it's totally meaningless. But it's very funny. And kind of cool.

I happened to be watching the very enjoyable tv movie of Homer's Odyssey, with Armand Assante as Odysseus.

I kept thinking, this face looks awfully familiar, and not from Judge Dredd... :)

So I shot a couple of left profiles directly from the TV:



... and compared them with this:



... not exact, but pretty durn close! The feeling of the face is really similar.

That last pic is a carving from around 400 BCE, that is, around 2,400 years ago, and it depicts Odysseus.

Good casting! (Assante turned in a great performance as well.)