>>9690090one interesting fact I discovered and will always remember is the difference between Romans and Greeks regarding beards.
Ancient Greeks regarded beards as a clear sign of being a man (without one you were more like a child), Romans (in the Roman republic) instead believed that having a beard was sign of being lazy or a rebellious mind, although there is proof of them considering it acceptable when patriarchs and nobles in general grew one in moments of particular significance of their life (mourning a family member and things like that).
Only after a while (probably around the rise to power of the emperors), having a beard started being seen as normal or even fashionable