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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4392324, member: 57463&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; I read more at Wikipedia and Livius.&nbsp; </p><p>I found this portrait at The Louvre:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1105148[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/portrait-emperor-gallienus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/portrait-emperor-gallienus" rel="nofollow">https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/portrait-emperor-gallienus</a></p><p>&quot;<b>This blunt, straighforward portrait of the emperor Gallienus was created at the beginning of his reign, when he inherited a significantly weakened Roman Empire. The portrait&#039;s typology indicates the emperor&#039;s desire to project himself as an inspired, powerful leader. This effigy was clearly intended as a piece of authoritarian propaganda. Through its borrowings from the Greek sculptural canon, it is also the artistic testimony of an emperor who was a noted lover of Greek culture.&quot;</b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">The Historia Augusta is much more condemnatory.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Gallieni_duo*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Gallieni_duo*.html" rel="nofollow">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Gallieni_duo*.html</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">But, all in all, I accept your final judgment. He did well, considering the circumstances.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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