We have a greater range of clothing choices today, so in antiquity hair was even more important as a bearer of meaning. I think conceptions of hair, in terms of its qualities of communicating personal aspects of an individual (gender, age, status, even mental health) and aspects of the culture he or she belongs to, have remained consistent. Individuality, even within societal expectations, was as prevalent then as it is now. The beauty of ancient hairstyles and the creative approaches used especially by women in Greece and Rome certainly does sound familiar in our modern world. Indian and Hindu traditions include ritual hair cutting today. We do not ritually cut hair to dedicate it here in the US, for example, but these traditions are old and enduring elsewhere.

In many ways our modern idea of hairstyles is quite different from antiquity because we do not have specific age-related hairstyles to mark rites of passage and significant life events. KS: Thank you, we are delighted to discuss the exhibition with you, James. Would you say our modern conceptions of hair have changed significantly since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans? To what extent have things remained the same given the lasting legacy of ancient Greek aesthetics in the Western world? This exhibition, the first ever in the US, investigates the ways in which hair reflected ancient societal norms, and signaled wealth, social status, and even divine prominence. Signed by Euphronios as potter (active 520-470 BCE). Attributed to Onesimos as painter (active ca. Rose, I bid you both a warm welcome to Ancient History Encyclopedia, and I thank you for speaking to me about Hair in the Classical World.ДЄttic Red-Figured Cup or Bowl Fragment with Bearded Warrior Wearing Scalp of Enemy on Helmet, 500-490 BCE. Marice Rose, art history professors in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University, who teamed up to co-curate this unprecedented exhibition. In this exclusive 2015 holiday season interview, James Blake Wiener of Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) speaks to Dr.

The exhibition takes the visitor on a rich cultural journey through ancient Greece, Cyprus, and Rome, in an examination of ancient hairstyles through three thematic lenses: вЂњArrangement and AdornmentвЂќ вЂњRituals and Rites of PassageвЂќ and вЂњDivine and Royal Iconography.вЂќ Hair in the Classical World, now on view at the Bellarmine Museum of Art (BMA) in Fairfield CT, is the first exhibition of its kind in the United States to present some 33 objects pertaining to hair from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (1500 BCE-600 CE). In antiquity, ancient hairstyles and their depictionsВ did not only delineate wealth and social status, or divine and mythological iconography they were also tied to rites of passage and religious rituals. Whether cut, shorn, curled, straightened, braided, beaded, worn in an upsweep or down to the knees, adorned with pins, combs, bows, garlands, extensions, and other accoutrements, hairstyles had the power to reflect societal norms.

Apollo wears a wreath of leaves from a laurel, a tree associated with the godвЂ™s oracle at Delphi.ДЇrom the dawn of civilization to the present day, human hair has seldom been worn in its natural state. Greek adult men would ritually cut their hair and grow a beard, but Apollo, whose long hair is often described as golden, defines the ultimate appearance of an ephebe, a beardless adolescent. The American Numismatic Society (1997.9.121). Tetradrachm with Apollo from Leontini, 435-430 BCE.

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