I can see him in the basement of the Domus Aurea shitposting on IV-Chan about those damn christians.
He actually looks like a guy I know from work.
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Re coloration, I assume that was based on contemporary writings.
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Yeah even the best sculptors in Rome couldn’t make that look good on him.
Or maybe it was just a furry chinstrap for holding his wig on.
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Dunno about the hair, but IIRC, Nero had a red beard.
Sorry to burst your bubble, gang (click through to read the thread):
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Suetonius describes him as having “light blond hair.”
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It’s kinda difficult to believe that guy who looks like he mopes about feminism ruining remakes & super hero movies ran one of the world’s most powerful empires for well over a decade
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that was cool
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I’m getting “Close cousin of Michael Rappaport”. I’m not getting “Outside of actual human facial possibility”. He’s got the same kind of “bowl of lumpy peeled potatoes”-face
Roman emperors weren’t actually gods, and they mostly would have looked like everyday idiots.
The interpretation is probably no more accurate than a rough police sketch, but the thing the other sculptures and coin faces also agree on is that he was basically a long nosed, flat faced jamoke like this.
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Who knows? We’re starting year three…
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