Talk:Cassius Longinus/@comment-27818075-20190117202150/@comment-36277500-20190119192321

At last! Someone has guts to say NO! to hipster beard trend!!!

I had also learned that Romans at Caesar's times (50 before our era) were shaving their faces, especially in Legions, where there used to be severe drill. Facial hair were considered as unhygienic and might, for example, complicate healing wounds in a face. Unshaved soldier was risking to be punished for lack of discipline, as if he had dirty clothes or blunt weapon. So whether Cassius and some other senatores might be decadent, at least Marc Antony should be perfectly shaved.

(It was quite common knowledge, which even leaked to comic. I'll let myself quote from "Asterix" very first tome: "Good soldier should be smoothly shaved!" "And good centurion should be a role model of that!" when Panoramix made Legionists drink potion making their hair and beards grow rapidly.)

Jokes aside...

Real Cassius Longinus http://www.s9.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5197_Cassius-Longinus-Gaius.jpg

Real Marc Antony https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mark-antony.jpg

So I second your complaint. Not everyone have to like beards in men. I am a woman and I like shaved men's faces.