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Titus Lucretius Carus busts have him wearing a beard even though he was alive 200 years before the popularization of beards in the roman empire by Hadrian. Do we know how accurate Lucretius' busts are? Or what the beard might represent?

by /u/IlSaggiatore420 in /r/AskHistorians

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