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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3182604, member: 76194&quot;][USER=74222]@Herberto[/USER]&nbsp; Professor Potter is a professor of Latin Studies, and is a frequent expert on TV documentaries about the Roman Empire. You seriously mean to imply that a professor of Latin Studies and an expert on the Roman Empire could not be able to look at a coin of Caracala and say &quot;That&#039;s not Antoninus Pius, that&#039;s Caracalla.&quot; Come on, anyone with a passing knowledge of Roman history should be able to distinguish Caracalla right away. His portrait is one of the most famous and images of his busts are frequent in history books on the Roman Empire. It&#039;s not like he was some obscure emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that, but this guy speaks Latin. Surely he could take two second to read the coin with the clear legend that says Severus Alexander and figure out, &quot;Hey, that&#039;s not Geta. As an expert on Imperial Rome, I know Severus Alexander is not the same as Geta. &quot; It&#039;s called paying attention to detail before your book gets published.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall this book has a lot of little mistakes that lead me to believe Professor Potter didn&#039;t really read his final product before it was published to make sure the editors had done a quality job. Professor Potter was probably too busy counting how much money he&#039;d make from book sales after requiring his students to purchase the book for his classes at inflated prices in the college book store. That&#039;s probably why his public profile at the University of Michigan doesn&#039;t even mention this book. His students probably laughed at it, and the professor would rather forget this experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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