🪷 #WorldBeardDay: Hand-picked by #Hadrian as successor, #AntoninusPius lavished vast sums on #Antinous art and temples. When bearded #Hadrian became emperor of Rome, every style-conscious man in Rome had a beard. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day #BeardDay 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay A beard makes the #Eleusis #Antinous statue look more solemn than ever. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo ... No ancient portrait of #Antinoos shows him with facial hair. But thanks to apps, we can imagine how he might have looked with a beard. Happy #BeardDay. 🪷

🪷 Happy World Beard Day ... First Saturday in September. Beard Day image courtesy Cássio CotrimII, based on the #Antinous #AgathoDaimon statue in the #AltesMuseum, Berlin. #BeardDay #WorldBeardDay 🪷

🪷 Happy World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo. First Saturday in September. Beard Day image courtesy Cássio CotrimII. #Lansdowne #Antinous / #Dionysus The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. #WorldBeardDay #BeardDay 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay After bearded #Hadrian became emperor of Rome, every style-conscious man in Rome had a beard, as did all of his successors for the next two generations. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day #BeardDay 🪷

Apparently, it's #BeardDay. Best I play along #waltermittyproject

🪷 The 1st Saturday of September is #WorldBeardDay. #BeardDay image courtesy #CássioCotrimII shows pensive #Eleusis #Antinoos looking even more solemn. What secrets of life/death were reveaied to him in the #Eleusinian Mysteries at the autumn #equinox? https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-day-antinous-was-initiated-into.html 🪷

🪷 #WorldBeardDay: Hand-picked by #Hadrian as successor, #AntoninusPius lavished vast sums on #Antinous art and temples. When bearded #Hadrian became emperor of Rome, every style-conscious man in Rome had a beard. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day #BeardDay 🪷

🪷 Happy World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo. First Saturday in September. This Beard Day image comes to us courtesy novelist L.J. Trafford - Author, who suggests #Antinous probably didn't want a beard at first ... but then it grew on him. #WorldBeardDay #BeardDay 🪷

🪷 Happy World Beard Day ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo. First Saturday in September. Beard Day image courtesy Cássio CotrimII, based on the #Antinous #AgathoDaimon statue in the Altes Museum, Berlin. #BeardDay #WorldBeardDay 🪷