Evan Urquhart 🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 OK this is a tangent, but I just finished a book about Roman ...
npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) OK this is a tangent, but I just finished a book about Roman emperors and one of the features discussed was that their official statues and portraits sought to make them look almost indistinguishable from one another.
On the inside there was all this chaos and assassination and jockeying for position, but the face they attempted to present was of continuity to the point of erasing the individual in the role. (Or, at least, that's what Mary Beard says.)
On the inside there was all this chaos and assassination and jockeying for position, but the face they attempted to present was of continuity to the point of erasing the individual in the role. (Or, at least, that's what Mary Beard says.)