That’s an interesting project! It really brings these guys to life.
- Vespasian was LBJ.
- Augustus looked kinda like Daniel Craig
- Nerva looked like crochety old character actor John Anderson
- Aemilian was our old Other Crap favorite, F. Murray Abraham.
- Florianus was Artie Lange after an especially debauched evening.
- Gordian III was Scott Baio.
- Titus was a morph of Tom Arnold and Art Garfunkel.
- According to this, Commodus looked like Dennis Rodman, not Joaquin Phoenix. I can’t reconcile that with his busts.
Their appearances, as pictured here, cause me to judge them with prejudice. I know, for example, that Titus was one of the more capable and virtuous (if short-lived) emperors, but it’s difficult to picture that because he looks like a doofus.