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um i made a meme for my history class
Valerian I was the only Roman emperor to die in captivity. Around 265, the Sassanid king Shapur I had him flayed and used the effigy as a war trophy.
“hey, the facial reconstruction of this roman emperor just looks like some italian guy“ well buddy i have great news about where rome is
Emperor Hadrian
Antalya Archeology Museum
Source: dantesse, 2022
Octavian Caesar was such an interesting guy because his rule was so divisive and he was a tyrant who convinced his people that he was this amazing king who did them good, which was why they gave him the name Augustus (who knoes if he floated the idea out to them, though) though he reportedly didn't call himself that
this guy was such a showman and a stickler for appearing really kind and nice and he was good at it, too
i don't think he was great, he's just interesting
what would i do if i met him? i'd ask him if he chose his hairstyle as a pr technique to appear more approachable as an emperor because BOY is it bad, it's "i just kept clipping with the scissors" bad
also this mans [Octavian Caesar] was just incredibly dramatic
Google references these quotes when you look him up:
[Image Description: Google search result of Augustus Caesar, a former Roman Emperor, and under the quotes tab reads, "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble," "Young men, hear an old man to whom old men harkened to when he was young," and "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!"]
likely, these were written by poets and not entirely what he actually said. however they left out my favorite one which is supposedly his last phrase, "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
which, for a social strategist likw him, is just metal and melodramatic because it really shows how much of his life was just an act and how he lived and breathed it
also clearly the poet that wrote it didn't think he was sincere but did think he was cool which i think is just great
The Roses of Elagabalus (1888) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Collection Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.
Mosaic of the Emperor Justinian I from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PetarM