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<p>[QUOTE="Noah Worke, post: 23904631, member: 115032"]The afterthought about Domitianus really caught my attention. I just recently finished listening to the "Emperors of Rome" podcast episodes about Domitian. I doubt there's any relation, but it would be interesting to see if he would try to be like his namesake or how he would have turned out. Late emperors sharing the names of early emperors is interesting to me, in fact the thing about Rome seeming to be that at any point they try to go back to the "good old days" especially in times of uncertainty. They put a lot of stock in names. One being named after Claudius, as Julio-Claudian, and one after Domitian, a Flavian. However, I'm just guessing. These stories hidden in the shadow really inspire the imagination. The barbarous imitations are really odd, and quite fascinating. I wonder if they were intended to look artistic at all, or if they just hired anyone who would do it to try and carve out the die from a description. It's all really interesting, there's a lot of mystery and "what-ifs" during the crisis- Particularly, what if the good ones survived for longer than a month or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Noah Worke, post: 23904631, member: 115032"]The afterthought about Domitianus really caught my attention. I just recently finished listening to the "Emperors of Rome" podcast episodes about Domitian. I doubt there's any relation, but it would be interesting to see if he would try to be like his namesake or how he would have turned out. Late emperors sharing the names of early emperors is interesting to me, in fact the thing about Rome seeming to be that at any point they try to go back to the "good old days" especially in times of uncertainty. They put a lot of stock in names. One being named after Claudius, as Julio-Claudian, and one after Domitian, a Flavian. However, I'm just guessing. These stories hidden in the shadow really inspire the imagination. The barbarous imitations are really odd, and quite fascinating. I wonder if they were intended to look artistic at all, or if they just hired anyone who would do it to try and carve out the die from a description. It's all really interesting, there's a lot of mystery and "what-ifs" during the crisis- Particularly, what if the good ones survived for longer than a month or so.[/QUOTE]
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