Thanks to an artistic recreation, we now know Roman emperor Nero was a literal neckbeard
Roman emperor Nero is not remembered in a very positive light. There’s that whole thing with him murdering his mother, the bit about him killing his first wife, all that other stuff about murdering Christians and Jews, and, oh yeah, a bunch of connections between himself and the Biblical Antichrist. This guy was totally playing fiddle covers of Dave Matthews Band while Rome burned, wasn’t he?
If that wasn’t a nasty enough legacy already, the Spanish art project Césares de Roma has modeled a lifelike Nero based on busts and descriptions of the emperor. The result is a work that that will forever couple Nero’s name with the fact that he apparently looked like a complete goddamned weiner.
The chin-strapped nerd emperor was brought to our attention via tweets from writer Josh Fruhlinger, who not only highlights how fucking miserable-looking Nero might have been, but also where his striking hair color could have come from. In a particularly revealing aside, he also points out how even Nero’s propaganda was unflattering. Even Trump’s got that part down.