Greco-Roman hairstyle

Detail of two men from a drinking party scene on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater (510-500 BC)[1]

In the earliest times the Greeks wore their κόμη (hair of the head) long, and thus Homer constantly calls them κᾰρηκομόωντες (long-haired).

False hair or wigs were worn both by Greeks and Romans.[2] Among both peoples in ancient times the hair was cut close in mourning; and among both the slaves had their hair cut close as a mark of servitude.[3]

  1. ^ Staatliche Antikensammlungen 8935
  2. ^ See e.g. Juv. vi. 120.
  3. ^ Aristoph. Aves, 911; Plant. Ampli. i. ]. 306; Decker, Ckaricles, vol. ii. p. 380, &c.; Bottiger, Sabina, vol. i. p. 138, &c.