How handsome is Augustus? He seems like a massive chad.

>>3180107
Augustus was a ginger.

>>3180107

Fun Fact: Emperors from the early Roman empire are depicted as being cleanly shaven in their statues, whereas Emperors from the later empire are depicted as having thick beards. We can only assume that there must have been a change of fashion at some point.

>>3180410
It's around Hadrian's reign where you see the beginning of that change.

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He was a beta bitchboi who relied on his legions and Chad Maximus aka Agrippa to secure the empire.

>>3180410
interesting theory

>>3180410
Less greek influence, and more semitic (christian) and germanic perhaps.

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>>3180410

August wanted clean shaved people, as the Roman were as opposed to the oriental beards that had become trendy among some Romans in the late days of the Republic.

Nero, being an Ahenobarbus still wore his beard with Roman pride though. Even if some of his demeanor could have seen as not as Roman as expected by Augustus.