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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2308064, member: 42773&quot;]The simple answer to the nudity question is that the emperor was being portrayed as a god. Roman gods were generally drawn in their birthday suits. The association seems straightforward to me. That statue may indeed be linked somehow to the statue of Alex III by Lysippos, but the average Roman citizen might not have known that. However, it would have been obvious that the emperor was being portrayed in the guise of Jupiter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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