Heh.
I visited Athens in the late '90s. In the gift shop on the Acopolis there was a statue of Neptune or someone. I looked down at his feet and his toes were just like mine - pinky toe substantially shorter than the rest (like a bone is missing or something)!
Not this, but something like it:
I'm 1/4 Greek.
More Proof!!:
I think people have made similar inferences based on ear lobes (attached or not, hanging down or not, etc.) - dunno if there's any real statistics behind this stuff or not, but it's interesting.
Cheers,
Scott.
Not this, but something like it:
I'm 1/4 Greek.
More Proof!!:
A Forestry Professor who apparently loves to pseydo-analyses the origins of ancient statues based on podiatric criteria sent an e-mail to the press woman in charge for the communication of the excavations in ancient tomb of Amphipolis; Yes, we have such a position here: press office of Amphipolis tomb excavations… In an laughable effort to solve the mystery of the Amphipolis tomb origin the professor sat down and developed a theory of his own.
In his e-mail Professor Pavlos Eythimiou claimed that “the tomb of Amphipolis is definitely Greek because the feet of Caryatids are Greek.”
His theory was that a “Greek foot has a longer second toe” and therefore “any foot with longer second toe has Greek genes.”
Furthermore he claimed that “Greek feet” are a matter of genetics and that there have been attempts to hide this …breathtaking reality and replace the patriotic “Greek foot” term by some scientific word from osteology.
I think people have made similar inferences based on ear lobes (attached or not, hanging down or not, etc.) - dunno if there's any real statistics behind this stuff or not, but it's interesting.
Cheers,
Scott.
