This might not have been TS' intention as:
- 1st and 3rd are Roman portrait sculpture, 2nd might be a Roman copy of a Greek original
- emperor Augustus in Prima Porta type (first pic), that Hellenistic one in the Hermitage possibly depicting Alexander the Great (second pic) and Hadrian's boy lover Antinoos (third pic) do have entirely different hairstyle schemes with entirely different representational significance, intentions and implications
- emperor Augustus is said to have been physically weak and plagued by illnesses, Antinoos was Hadrian's juvenile gay boy lover and it's rather Alexander's father Philip than he who is renowned as wrestler / pankratiast
sorry
for Ben Askren hairstyle rather look at Marcus Aurelius btw
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