Add to ORKGSeptimius Severus, one of the bearded Roman emperors (193-211). Source: Wikipedia For those who have missed it: male facial hair is currently in fashion. While almost none of my students sported a beard five years ago, it now looks as if they all do (the real proportion is probably 25%, but this is not the point of this post). Beards go in and out of vogue, and have done so for centuries. Thus, the first Roman Emperors, and those who emulated them, were clean shaven or had short beards, but f..
This 19th century bust represents the first and most lauded Roman Emperor, Augustus (reign, 27 BCE-1...
This paper explores the literary tradition of the curious chreia that Alexander ordered his men to s...
Over the last five years, students of Alfonso the Learned have shown that the Spanish monarch made c...
Of Beards and Men makes the case that today’s bearded renaissance is part of a centuries-long cycle ...
In his official portraits, Roman Emperor Hadrian sported a Greek beard rather than the clean shaven ...
This dissertation is a cultural study of male facial hair in the Roman world. It approaches facial h...
Styling one's hair seems to be an innate desire of humans to emphasize their beauty and power. As re...
With the exception of Demetrius II in his second reign, the Seleucid kings were normally portrayed c...
This 19th century bust represents the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (reign, 193–211 CE). His famil...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
textThe Roman Emperor Trajan, who ruled the Roman Empire from 98 CE – 117 CE has always been remembe...
In the middle of the nineteenth century the face of masculinity suddenly changed in Western culture....
The beard is a strikingly sexually dimorphic androgen-dependent secondary sexual trait in humans. Da...
The depiction of foreign men with their hair tied in a knot is a well known subject in Roman art. Th...
The portrait is regarded as a Roman invention. Facial features of many Romans come down to us throug...
This 19th century bust represents the first and most lauded Roman Emperor, Augustus (reign, 27 BCE-1...
This paper explores the literary tradition of the curious chreia that Alexander ordered his men to s...
Over the last five years, students of Alfonso the Learned have shown that the Spanish monarch made c...
Of Beards and Men makes the case that today’s bearded renaissance is part of a centuries-long cycle ...
In his official portraits, Roman Emperor Hadrian sported a Greek beard rather than the clean shaven ...
This dissertation is a cultural study of male facial hair in the Roman world. It approaches facial h...
Styling one's hair seems to be an innate desire of humans to emphasize their beauty and power. As re...
With the exception of Demetrius II in his second reign, the Seleucid kings were normally portrayed c...
This 19th century bust represents the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (reign, 193–211 CE). His famil...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
textThe Roman Emperor Trajan, who ruled the Roman Empire from 98 CE – 117 CE has always been remembe...
In the middle of the nineteenth century the face of masculinity suddenly changed in Western culture....
The beard is a strikingly sexually dimorphic androgen-dependent secondary sexual trait in humans. Da...
The depiction of foreign men with their hair tied in a knot is a well known subject in Roman art. Th...
The portrait is regarded as a Roman invention. Facial features of many Romans come down to us throug...
This 19th century bust represents the first and most lauded Roman Emperor, Augustus (reign, 27 BCE-1...
This paper explores the literary tradition of the curious chreia that Alexander ordered his men to s...
Over the last five years, students of Alfonso the Learned have shown that the Spanish monarch made c...