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Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul. https:/
by ralfd 6y ago
Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus
Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar.
Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitia_Calvilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitia_Calvilla
...and his father's mother was a Roman woman too.
It is all just speculation but compare it to this artistic rendition:
https://i.redd.it/92np45xeap521.jpg https://i.redd.it/92np45xeap521.jpg
Actually what irks me is his son Commodus: This is not how blonde people, even with a tan, even black haired Italians with a tan and narcistically coloring their hair with gold glitter, look like.
- rbecker 6y ago> Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain And that is Spain before the Moorish invasion. A similar asterisk could be added to much of the rest of North Africa regarding Muslim conquest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
- ralfd 6y agoI meant with first Aurelius = Aurelian https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian > "The ancient sources do not agree on his place of birth, although he was generally accepted as being a native of Illyricum" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyricum_(Roman_province) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyricum_(Roman_province)
- nemosaltat 6y agoI swear this was posted a couple weeks ago and there was a big thread on how “white-washed” it was. I can’t find the post now.