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Why did the Romans shave their beards ?

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Why did the Romans shave their beards ?
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01-19-2005, 06:26 AM
About Augustus I have to make 2 exceptions: in a German TV program I recently saw a coin showing the young Octavius with full beard. They explained it with his mourning because of the murder of his foster father Caesar. At the end of his reign, after the Varian disaster it was said that Augustus did not cut his hair or shave his beard. Thus one motive for wearing a beard besides fashion could have been mourning.<br>
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Also Nero is not totally clean shaven, he is mostly shown with side-burns.<br>
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Re: Why did the Romans shave their beards ? - by Anonymous - 01-18-2005, 08:24 PM
beards - by Theodosius the Great - 01-18-2005, 08:39 PM
Re: beards - by Uwe Bahr - 01-19-2005, 06:14 AM
Re: beards - by Uwe Bahr - 01-19-2005, 06:26 AM
shaved Europeans - by Carlton Bach - 01-19-2005, 08:18 PM
Re: shaved Europeans - by Anonymous - 01-20-2005, 05:54 AM
Re: shaved Europeans - by Crispvs - 01-21-2005, 12:26 AM
Re: shaved Europeans - by Tarbicus - 01-21-2005, 07:56 AM
short-haired Celt - by Carlton Bach - 01-21-2005, 05:14 PM
Re: short-haired Celt - by Ebusitanus - 01-26-2005, 11:55 AM
Iberians - by Theodosius the Great - 01-26-2005, 12:19 PM
Re: Iberians - by Ebusitanus - 01-27-2005, 10:55 AM
Re: Iberians - by Theodosius the Great - 01-27-2005, 02:59 PM
Re: Iberians - by Crispvs - 01-27-2005, 11:53 PM
celts... - by Arthes - 10-10-2005, 10:36 PM
Spartan hair... - by Arthes - 06-30-2006, 11:47 AM

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