![]() ![]() ![]() To be a European is to be descended from the people whom they beat into submission or who helped kick them when they were eventually down. They are familiar because they haunt Europe's imagination they are our story of how absolute power corrodes the soul but gets to wear clean, white linen or golden armour along the way. The scary thing is how many of them look just as we expect – Caligula has calculating, brutal eyes Heliogabalus is so achingly pretty, and mildly deranged. You walk in from the heat of a Roman morning, and there they are, 40 pairs of marble eyes, sneering coolly across the ages. ![]() There is a room in the Capitoline Museum that is full of the heads of emperors. ![]()
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