Echetlaeus
Hero of Marathon
To my understanding most civilisations highly valued men with beard (except maybe the period of Alexander, where they had to shave for practical, war, reasons).
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The practice of Shaving was common since the Bronze-age i.e. Bronze razors of the Urnfield and Hallstatt zones;
http://www.academia.edu/2459391/Razors_and_male_identity_in_the_Bronze_Age
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.23...id=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104249058693
p.4 - Hallstatt razors (top left)
http://www.heimatgilde-frohsinn.de/_downloads/Funde_SachkundeHa.pdf
Hallstatt razor France (two-edge razor)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rasoir_Acy-Romance.jpg
Germanic (Nordic/Denmark) razors -
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/img/25600.jpg
https://www.beloit.edu/logan_online...exhibitions/before_history/europe/denmark.php
One thing is Hollywood the other actual archaeology;
Bronze razors were known in Italy ever since the Terremare culture and further manifested by the Indo-European Urnfield cultures Villanova/Golasecca/Este; Thus the Romans shaved because they had the technology (like most others);
The practice of Shaving was common since the Bronze-age i.e. Bronze razors of the Urnfield and Hallstatt zones;
http://www.academia.edu/2459391/Razors_and_male_identity_in_the_Bronze_Age
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.23...id=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104249058693
p.4 - Hallstatt razors (top left)
http://www.heimatgilde-frohsinn.de/_downloads/Funde_SachkundeHa.pdf
Germanic (Nordic/Denmark) razors -
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/img/25600.jpg
https://www.beloit.edu/logan_online...exhibitions/before_history/europe/denmark.php
Hallstatt razor France (two-edge razor)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rasoir_Acy-Romance.jpg
One thing is Hollywood the other actual archaeology;
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