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Digital Artist Brings Roman Emperors To Life With Photorealistic Images
This is what Marcus Aurelius really looked like!
While history has not been flattering to this brief emperor's legacy, he is credited with two major changes to the Roman Empire; He ended the practices of centurions selling furloughs to their men and he expanded the offices of the Imperial administration to include Equites. Canter described Domitian as having large eyes, "but not sharp-sighted... face modest and with tendency to blush... in later years exhibited pallor of body, bloated cheeks, and a haughty, savage, terror-inspiring, shameless countenance." Canter wrote, "features clear cut and attractive; expression affable but dull, as usual in drunkards," while Cocci added, "hair naturally blond and curly, and in sunlight as lustrous as if sprinkled with gold dust, or as if reflecting a divine splendor; cheeks covered with tender down; hair of face and head singed because he feared barber […] at times shaved his head and carried a statue of Anubis, Egyptian tutelary deity of the chase."
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