bane wrote: "I looked around for a little bit on the web but there's really pitifully little we know about this kind of day-to-day minutia." I would call that

bane wrote: "I looked around for a little bit on the web but there's really pitifully little we know about this kind of day-to-day minutia." I would call that myopic; the Internet does not yet contain all of human knowledge ever recorded. Given that Classic civilizations left many artifacts and were well studied throughout history, I would be surprised if some musty university library in Europe does not contain a thesis on ancient hairdos. I doubt Google scholar has been that thorough, yet. I do get your point, and do agree that many details of ancient civilizations are lost to history, but it's not because they can't be found in Google.