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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2538698, member: 56859&quot;]The article from which many of these physical descriptions came is a very fun read:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4172009?seq=1##page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4172009?seq=1##page_scan_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">H. V. Canter (July 1928). Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors.&nbsp; <i>Studies in Philology</i>, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 385-399.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The author used whatever contemporary and near-contemporary historical descriptions were available but did not use coins, statues, busts, or other physical art when compiling his written descriptions.&nbsp; Many of the resulting descriptions are copied almost verbatim from the works of contemporary historians such as Suetonius, so you may have seen many of these already if you&#039;ve read those works.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before you read the linked article, try your hand at guessing the emperor based on the written descriptions in the article.&nbsp; I made a little quiz <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I grew tired of typing so there are only 16 questions.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tifcollection.com/quiz-5--descriptions-of-roman-emperors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tifcollection.com/quiz-5--descriptions-of-roman-emperors" rel="nofollow">http://www.tifcollection.com/quiz-5--descriptions-of-roman-emperors</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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