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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8023222, member: 115909&quot;]I like to think that them knowing the vague appearance of certain Kings of Rome may have been from oral tradition rather than seeing images like statues or coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example it’s well known that in Ancient Greece there were people able to memorize the entire Iliad then they would pass it down to new story tellers and it would be passed down from generation to generation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible that the appearance of Roman kings (if they were real or based on real leaders of Rome) could have been passed down as well?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe someone who lived during the Roman kingdom told his son about the kings and what they looked like and he passed it down to his son and I’m guessing over time details were lost but perhaps some details survived. Like hair color or skin color or facial type and maybe the images on coins were artistic representations based on those descriptions?</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it’s possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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