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Furthermore, whether Roman portraits faithfully translate the actual hairstyles worn by the sitters is problematic because of the scarcity of surviving hair which leaves little basis of comparison. The second problem is the physical accuracy of the Roman portraits itself.
27 BC – AD 14), as wife of Augustus, was the first and longest-reigning empress. The term Roman empress usually refers to the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied depending on the time period, contemporary politics and the personalities of their husband and themselves.
Detail of two men from a drinking party scene on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater (510-500 BC) [1]. In the earliest times the Greeks wore their kómē (κόμη; hair of the head) long, and thus Homer constantly calls them karēkomóōntes (κᾰρηκομόωντες; long-haired).
Comparing the hairstyles on mummy portraits, it is revealed that the vast majority of them correspond to the fast-changing fashion of hairstyles used by the elite of the rest of the Roman Empire. They, in turn, often followed the fashion of the Roman emperors and their wives, whose images and coiffures can be dated through their depictions on ...
The Holy Roman Empress or Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (Kaiserin des Heiligen Römischen Reiches) was the wife or widow of the Holy Roman Emperor. The elective dignity of Holy Roman emperor was restricted to males only, but some empresses, such as Theophanu and Maria Theresa , were de facto rulers of the Empire.
Aelia Eudocia was born with the name Athenais in Athens. [3] The 7th century Chronicon Paschale describes her as Greek. [4] Her exact year of birth is not known, but it is often given as c. 400 [5] or c. 401 [6] on the assumption that she was born around the same time of Emperor Theodosius II (401 AD).
Click, scroll, click. “Here it is,” she said. “I have, like, 33,000 screenshots.” She smiled and swiped through more images on her phone.
Beatrice was crowned Holy Roman Empress by Antipope Paschal III in Rome on 1 August 1167, after Frederick took Rome. Then there was a plague in the army. When retreating, the emperor and empress were attacked by their enemies at Pontremoli. The empress armed herself with two shields and could hardly escape the arrow rain.