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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3384619, member: 56859"]<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. <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. Many of the resulting descriptions are copied almost verbatim from the works of contemporary historians such as Suetonius.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this article the description of Nero is from Suetonius, whose writings are not strictly accurate...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]898944[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had a fun quiz were you had to guess the emperor based on the written description. I just checked and all of my quiz links are dead <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I guess QuizRevolution.com went under and I didn't save those quizzes. Drat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3384619, member: 56859"][URL='http://www.jstor.org/stable/4172009?seq=1##page_scan_tab_contents']H. V. Canter (July 1928). Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors. [I]Studies in Philology[/I], Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 385-399.[/URL] 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. Many of the resulting descriptions are copied almost verbatim from the works of contemporary historians such as Suetonius. In this article the description of Nero is from Suetonius, whose writings are not strictly accurate... [ATTACH=full]898944[/ATTACH] I had a fun quiz were you had to guess the emperor based on the written description. I just checked and all of my quiz links are dead :(. I guess QuizRevolution.com went under and I didn't save those quizzes. Drat.[/QUOTE]
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