Ant-Baldness Discrimination During the Roman Empire Era?

[Afro_Vacancy]

This topic is semi-serious, mostly joking.

Were most Roman Emperors depicted as being full-heads due to the less toxic diets of the era, better genes among people of central italy, or due to anti-baldness discrimination in ancient times?

I mean look at August, Nero, Claudius, Caligula, Tiberius, Domitian, Trajan, and Vespasian below?

Of those, ordered by the first few listed on google, only Vespasian is bald. He had to defeat the Jewish rebellion of 66-73 AD in order to become Emperor. Him and his son Titus.

 

[Roberto_72]

Wonderful thread, David!

Trajan was actually Spanish

However, other emperors from Rome were bald.

Julius Caesar was the object or witty remarks because of his baldness.
As Marguerite Yourcenar remembers impersonating Hadrien:
Vivant, il se trouve toujours quelqu’un pour nous reprocher nos faiblesses, comme jadis à César sa calvitie et ses amours.
(When you live, you always find someone who will reproach us for our weaknesses, as already happened to Caesar with his baldness and his loves.)

Caesar was Roman as they come: he was born in Suburra (sub-urban Rome), where the words Suburbs comes from.