What Julius Caesar really looked like

Опубликовано: 27 Июнь 2021
на канале: Phil Edwards

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I wanted to know what Julius Caesar really looked like. So I used Metahumans Digital Humans for Unreal Engine to test it out — and it was a lot of fun.

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So, so many sources for this one about what Julius Caesar looked like. First, just check out the busts I reference.
http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/i...

Next, I’m gonna link the papers I read for this. Most are behind paywalls. There are secret ways to read these papers if you don’t want to mortgage your house to pay the fees. Let me know if you are curious. That said, I’m giving you the legit links.

Paper about Caesar being sick that touches on his fitness level (IE the reason I didn’t make Fat Caesar).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24858427...

Nice bust overview:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4166364

This is one of the machine learning guys — he actually didn’t do Julius. I think it’s a cool project, but the phrase “machine learning” papers over the fact that it’s basically colorizing guesstimates. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s more than just a little fun (I’d say it’s even less scrupulous than this video). Nevertheless, great guy I’m sure, etc ad inf.
  / 1296664858411270144

One of the best coins:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/recor...
Another beaut:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/1...

Overview of portraits of Caesar that helped me kinda smell check the idea that we don’t have a ton to go on. Also includes a lot of the Suetonius translation/interpretation I draw on.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/641005

Good popular article about Caesar’s faces:
  / the-many-faces-of-julius-caesar

The new Caesar (yikes):
https://popular-archaeology.com/artic...

Another Caesar appearance overview:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288326?...

This professor does crazy weird biometric analysis of Caesar based on the busts. Too much of a can of worms for this video, but fun to dig into her work:
https://zenodo.org/record/1405085#.YN...