06-30-2013, 01:29 PM
Ha, the sad thing is spend enough time with history...particularly the history of history, and one understands the sources of so many of those bizarre ones.
Wait don't have you have like pretty accomplished beard? I must be thinking of someone else.
Actually though, despite the fact that modern popular culture has built up a sort of dichotomy between clean shaven Romans and bearded Orientals, beards in Rome had a sort of...antique air about them and Juvenal and other poets can employ "bearded men/kings etc" as short hand for their ancestors. So often, in later periods, beards were a revert to type and not orientalism.
Ding ding ding...we have a winner of the best one ever LOL. Honestly though this does remind me of some Byzantine historian from....I think the 11th or it may be 12th...touring the statues and reliquaries in Constantinople and commenting on their ethical characters and at one point just pointing out how handsome someone was.
Quote:Too many beards. Things started going downhill when they stopped shaving like proper Romans.
Wait don't have you have like pretty accomplished beard? I must be thinking of someone else.
Actually though, despite the fact that modern popular culture has built up a sort of dichotomy between clean shaven Romans and bearded Orientals, beards in Rome had a sort of...antique air about them and Juvenal and other poets can employ "bearded men/kings etc" as short hand for their ancestors. So often, in later periods, beards were a revert to type and not orientalism.
Quote:215. The godlike Colossus of Constantine sets an impossible standard for male beauty in Rome. Unable to match the cultural expectation of being 12m tall and made of marble, the male citizenry of Rome lack the self-confidence to resist barbaric hordes.
Ding ding ding...we have a winner of the best one ever LOL. Honestly though this does remind me of some Byzantine historian from....I think the 11th or it may be 12th...touring the statues and reliquaries in Constantinople and commenting on their ethical characters and at one point just pointing out how handsome someone was.
Jass
