10-29-2010, 02:08 AM
On the legions of Rome, I still think Jona Lendering's surveys on Livius.org are excellent: http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/legions.htm
@ MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS: Remember the statues of Augustus show the man around 27BCE when he came to the settlement with the Senate and they gave him the title of 'revered one'. A profile of the same image was used on coins. From what I understand the youthful image of the princeps did not change, even when he was an old man. There's a good podcast by the British Museum at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0 ... f_Augustus The aged Augustus may well indeed have looked quite like the revered Brian Blessed...
@ MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS: Remember the statues of Augustus show the man around 27BCE when he came to the settlement with the Senate and they gave him the title of 'revered one'. A profile of the same image was used on coins. From what I understand the youthful image of the princeps did not change, even when he was an old man. There's a good podcast by the British Museum at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0 ... f_Augustus The aged Augustus may well indeed have looked quite like the revered Brian Blessed...