romegreeceart:Emperor Commodus portrayed as Hercules. Btw I saw a similar statue of some earlier emp
romegreeceart:Emperor Commodus portrayed as Hercules. Btw I saw a similar statue of some earlier emperor in Palazzo Massimo this summer. So Commodus wasn’t actually the first one who used this theme - Rome, Capitolium museumAnd IIRC that other emperor was Trajan.Rome, July 2007 -- source link
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