The British Museum Marble portrait of Alexander the Great Ο Αλέξανδρος εδειχνε πάντα ξυρισμένος, που ήταν μια καινοτομία.Ολα τα προηγούμενα πορτρέτα με Έλληνες πολιτικούς και κυβερνήτες είχαν γενειάδες. Αυτή η βασιλική μόδα διήρκεσε σχεδόν πεντακοσία ετη και σχεδόν στο σύνολο των Ελληνιστικών βασιλέων. Hellenistic Greek, Alexander was always shown clean-shaven, which was an innovation: all previous portraits of Greek statesmen or rulers had beards. This royal fashion lasted for almost five hundred years and almost all of the Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors until Hadrian were portrayed beardless. Alexander was the first king to wear the all-important royal diadem, a band of cloth tied around the hair that was to become the symbol of Hellenistic kingship.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/m/portrait_alexander_the_great.aspx
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