Funny mythic coincidence!

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.)

LOL

that is weird .... the pic of him on the right, with the longer hair looks almost identical LOL

It does -- he has to age 20 years in the movie of course, and that was right at the end...

Maybe they actually used that carving as reference?

You never know.... some directors do do that, especialy if they have a proper bust of a real person ( ceasar for example)