Episode 9: Glittering Bronze Men (Homer's Iliad, Books 1-8)
Literature and History
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History's First Mullets
Book II of the Iliad contained what is perhaps history's first-ever mention of a mullet. One of the groups of Greek warriors headed to the Trojan War have this hairstyle. The sprinting of Bontes followed, four locks cropped, hair long in the back.
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