I feel like they should have used more pictures of people from central Italy in their dataset. These images look very northern european to me.
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#22Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus
Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar.
Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitia_Calvilla ...and his father's mother was a Roman woman too.
It is all just speculation but compare it to this artistic rendition:
https://i.redd.it/92np45xeap521.jpg
Actually what irks me is his son Commodus: This is not how blonde people, even with a tan, even black haired Italians with a tan and narcistically coloring their hair with gold glitter, look like.
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#23I feel like they should have used more pictures of people from central Italy in their dataset. These images look very northern european to me.
Well, they are using the descriptions that have come down to us from Ancient times, and I don't know how much the Ancient Romans differ from modern Romans in terms of their racial aspects. Italy has had a lot going on since ancient times in terms of peoples that have migrated there.
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#24Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar. Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman... https://en.wik…
> Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain
And that is Spain before the Moorish invasion. A similar asterisk could be added to much of the rest of North Africa regarding Muslim conquest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
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#25Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar. Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman... https://en.wik…
I meant with first Aurelius = Aurelian
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian
> "The ancient sources do not agree on his place of birth, although he was generally accepted as being a native of Illyricum"
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#26OK, I have a question that has been bugging me for years. How do these Romans shave? Finely stropped bronze blades that must dull immediately? Did they pluck their whiskers?
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#27OK, I have a question that has been bugging me for years. How do these Romans shave? Finely stropped bronze blades that must dull immediately? Did they pluck their whiskers?
Seems metal razor were invented at least 2000 years prior the Roman Empire. "Around 3000 BC when copper tools were developed, copper razors were invented. The idea of an aesthetic approach to personal hygiene may have begun at this time, though Egyptian priests may have practiced something similar to this earlier. Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BC because he believed it looked tidier." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving#History
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#28OK, I have a question that has been bugging me for years. How do these Romans shave? Finely stropped bronze blades that must dull immediately? Did they pluck their whiskers?
Apparently everyone was clean shaven until Hadrian(?) and then he did the beard thing so well the next line 10 emperors wore beards.
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#29My physical education teacher in High School was the spitting image of Trajan (this was late 90s). We were blown away the first time we saw a picture of Trajan in our texts. He used to call his Cadillac a "battlewagon" but after we showed him the picture he called it a "chariot" instead. Fun memories..
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#30Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar. Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman... https://en.wik…
I swear this was posted a couple weeks ago and there was a big thread on how “white-washed” it was. I can’t find the post now.