This is terrible. Did we watch the same video? They took so much liberty, it didn't even look the same after the first two. And what's with the Neanderthal brow? One thing for certain in this period was that Roman artists were incredibly skilled and the emphasis was on real features. So, no, he changed a ton of features. This is not good
I've always been interested in Ancient Rome and characters from long lost Empires. The beauty, the savagery, all blend into a fascinating story of man, his failings, his disappointments, his passions, his achievements, his conquests. You're so passionate about bringing these characters to life. Thank you so much.
I doubt anyones smile was disarming back in these days. No flouride, no dentists, if George Washington had wooden teeth back in the late 1700s imagine what they looked like 2500 yrs ago?
@Sarren oh man I'm just going to take your word for it. Why the hell didn't the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries do that? I'd still rather brush my teeth with pee then have no teeth
When I was a child growing up in Manhattan, I used to stare at the Greek and Roman statuary in the Met Museum and swear I saw people who looked like them on the bus, the subway, in shops and on the NYC streets all the time! They were very real to me.
When I walked with my son 20 years ago through Tivoli I told him that the people in the past just look like us now. The only thing was that they had other clothing.
Why shouldn't the ancient romans have looked like us? They are the ancestors of half of Europe, including Frenchs, Spaniards, Portugueses and Italians. Children always resemble their parents. Should these roman parents be different to their children?
@@pg.ledesma You never heard of the barbarian invasions? Guess where the Lombardians of northern Italy came from? Hint: Not from Rome or southern Italy. And speaking of Spaniards, they are a mix of Hispano-Romans, Moors and Goths.
@@capmidnite No. Barbarians only were a few between the roman population (they ended up being assimilated), and moors in Spain, well, only went the ellite of them there, only the nobility and a few landowners, and ended up being driven out. The most of population went on being celt-roman, as evidenced by the language and spanish costumes of today (heiresses of Rome). And the same occured in Italy, France and Portugal. But, are those barbarians different to germans or scandinavians of today? Answer is no, so my argument holds: people from antiquity were no diferent of us.
Absolutely brilliant ! After about 45 years of studying Roman and Greek history, I would never have imagined that I one day would look into the eyes and faces of men who for me were my heroes of a long dead age. Yet here we are, due to your painstaking work, we are able to face those heroes as they genuinly looked to those who knew them personally. These portraits are works of art and truly excellent historical reconstructions in one ! Thank you so much for sharing your work with us.
One thing: the Romans were tanned Mediterranean type just like: George Clooney, Salma hayek, Rafael Nadal, kim Kardashian, catharine Z jones, sean Connery etc etc
@@davidferrari7543 ...Salma Hayek? LOL she's half native American of the Central Mexico region, and half middle Eastener. This mix wasn't even possible all those thousands of years ago LOL
Why should they be different from modern Europeans? Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italians and Romanians, we descend directly from them, they are our ancestors, I don't understand why they should be different from their modern descendants.
Why wouldn't they? 2000 years is not that much in human evolutionary terms. Its not like we're talking about homo erectus here. Even Cro-Magnons wouldn't stand out in a crowd assuming they were dressed in modern attire.
(who are descended from a mix of Germanic, Celtic slaves of the Romans as well as Etruscans), the majority of the people shown here were shown to have light brown and light hazel to blue eyes, that as far from reality as you can get for Rome and southern Italy.
I've been a Latin teacher for over 20 years; studied it for over 30. This language as been my passion since I was 13. To see these images come to life is breathtaking and wondrous! But I think the best part is after studying and teaching year after year about these monumental figures and powerplayers in one of the greatest civilizations of all time, to find out Pompey looks like someone's creepy uncle and Caesar your best friend's dad! 😆 😆 🤣
Salve! Thank you for keeping Latin alive and helping younger generations better understand their own languages, so cool you also love and respect Latin :) may i ask from which country are you from, and where do you teach currently, in which nation? Vivat Roma Aeterna!
@@dmp1520 Multas gratias tibi! :) Thank you for your kind words!! I am American and taught and lived in Texas most of my life. I had an amazing Latin teacher in high school that inspired me to pursue the Classics. Been to Rome twice--will never forget my trips to the Eternal City! Was lucky to go when I was young and carefree, lol! Vale, amice! :)
You have done for thousands of us, who have stood in front statues and tried to imagine, what we couldn't do to our own satisfaction. Thank you for this wonderful gift !! Pat. America
What amazes me most about ancient Rome was how quickly the army could construct earth works and other engineering. Takes months for them to just finish a sidewalk today!
I've often said the same thing. Plus, think of it this way, Roman concrete was more difficult for them to produce and gain large quantities of. Modern construction crews can simply bulk purchase the large quantities needed quickly and it's present, ready to use with big mixer trucks.
The reason it takes that long today is politics. Cities and states with funding allocations paying off their political supporters, from contractors to union bosses. The longer the work takes, the more money is paid out. You always see a lot more road construction in the months leading up to elections and immediately following them than you will any other time.
@@annjohnson6193 Just look at how much mkney ended up going into "the Big Dig" around Boston. Obscene amount of money, far more than was originally allocated.
Agrippa was just a commoner from a wealthy family, new money, that Octavian (Augustus) befriended in what we would call “boarding school” when he was about 14/15, a grown man in their time. Many of the projects he started or made (what we call blueprints) were created 100s of years after his death and dedicated to him.
Well done. I know these faces. My mom was from Lazio province. My son looks like Nero. Fortunately, he is kind, helpful. The school gave him an award for being a good neighbor.
@@jwadaow violin. His violin teacher said. He is my most helpful and kind student. The teacher broke his arm and my son went to class early to help set up.He was not the best player in the class.
The sculptures make me imagine faces very different from what they are shown. Otavio's mouth, for example, is much more aligned with his nose in the sculpture than it is in the created image. It is the same with Messalina's mouth and nose. Nero has a prominent chin, but his jaw does not seem prominent as it is shown in the created image. He is also wide-eyed in the sculpture, very different from his eyes in the image. To me, the proportions of the faces (sculpture and image) are different.
Claudia... Panagiotis stated in the description that he created these images " Modifying photos from ancient roman statues and accurate descriptions of the time about the subjects' physical appearance." He did not use the statues shown in video alone. He used a variety of descriptions available.
I was thinking the same thing. The simulated images, to me, look very different to the statues. As per the video Description, the images are not based solely on the statues, but incorporate descriptions from those times. If I hadn't read the Description I would have been cynical about the images. Agrippa's bust, as a prime example, is nothing like the image at all, as well as being much younger than the bust portrays. Disconcerting compilations.
He was better than narrated. He was not a nice guy but also not the monster It was depicted. As always history is written by the winners, either political opponents or christians. You must go deeper in History to know what the accepted truth Is like
@@eternaldarkness6228 exactly when that fro comes from ✊🏽✊🏽 and remember Italians dealt with prejudice too and wear also called racist names and were lynched
This is phenomenal. After spending nearly 47 years studying Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, it was wonderful to see this series you have done. To see the faces of the men and women I have read about from the anicent past, to see much better than ever before how they all looked, you simply must add more to this series. This truly is new territory in the study of history and the source material to expound upon is practically unlimited. Thank you for this post here.
Thank you for saying that!🙂 I try to present history and ancient civilizations as something interesting, learning something in the process. But sometimes I get discouraged when I see cat videos with millions of views. Yet I keep going.
@@panagiotisconstantinou do you have any reconstruction statues of the nabatean herod dynasty through his so called Father antipater or will we never know how herods father looked only by looking at Herod we might see a similar face
@@banquo60615 Because some places have been invaded (and invaded/enslaved other cultures) so many times, the demographics can easily shift over time. For example, many current day Greeks have a bit of Slavic blood in them from post-Classical era invasions. They discovered mummified remains in western China with blond hair.
@@francescofane Yes but attractive standards back then could have been entirely different from what they are now. And obviously the face they pasted onto it has a very modern definition of attractive.
Another stunning video, I love it, thank you. While in Bath (UK), three years ago, I spotted a beautiful man walking down the street. He had classical looks, curly hair, strong features and walked proudly with his head up - he looked like he had just stepped down from one of the statue's plynths in the Roman Baths in the town, and would not have looked out of place in this line up 😊
This and Mystery Scoop's approach should be added to history classes in school, to humanize the names. To make the students realize they were real living, breathing people like they are now. Make them more relatable.
I've seen a lot of renditions of Julius Caesar from statues. I am used to seeing him on coins. I really like your rendition, it fits how I imagine him much better than the more common renditions you see.
I think a lot of these engines use the faces of actors to recreate the images. I saw one where Caeser looked just like the guy who plays the lawyer son on Yellowstone. I think this one uses more common peoples faces so you get a more true representation.
My favorite character in ancient Rome is Aurelia Cotta (mother of Julius Caesar) who was reputed to be the most beautiful of her time and regarded to have been more beautiful than Helen of Troy. Not to mention her influence to make her son the most famous of them all. Could P. Constantinou make 'live' of her? It would be most intriguing.
Although Aurelia Cotta was considered an ideal Roman woman and highly intelligent, there is no source that describes her as the most beautiful woman of her time and more beautiful than Helen of Troy.
That was absolutely fantastic really enjoyed seeing the busts, and then change into what the person’s face might of looked like and listening to the music made it so real. Thank you very much that was really good.
Augustus busts were idealized. In reality he was supposed to be awkwardly built, bad teeth, and had a limp. Caesar as well, in reality he was balding but most of his statues shows him with a full head of hair.
All of your work is absolutely amazing, not only in it's quality, also in it's quantity and scope. Fascinated by the story of mankind's history from an early age now into the last phase of human life, it is a distinct pleasure to see so many people and peoples I have read about and seen dipictions of come to life, as it were, through your technique which certainly does seem as flawlessly as if by magic. Thank you also on your personal stand that irregardless of all the evil intentions of some historical figures has no place in your artwork. Thank you ever so much for giving me the rare and unlooked for pleasure of a life-like glimpse of some of my old familiar studies.
I want to see what the great emperors Constantine & Justinian looked liked. Zeno, Stillicho, Rufinus, Arsinoe, the Komenenos dynasty. I loved this so much. Please make more
I appreciate all the hard work that went into producing this. It is masterful. Bringing to life what sculptures, as incredible as they are, lacks what our technological artists can achieve today.
He was a monster mostly to the senatorial class. He got along with plebs famously. Also, despite his reputation as a big spender he somehow still left Claudius with a full treasury.
To be fair he was said to be quite good in his first 7 months and was loved by many. Only after suffering from some sort of brain damage when his behavior changed. Same with Henry VIII.
YOU are a *VASSAL* of rome. Love that show. Love titus pullo. And what an incredible actor young octavian was. Wish we could have 8 more seasons But then again, a women's role has always suited you best
This isn't the image of the Proto Romans this is the image after 476 - 493ce Odoacer after the Proto Romans were conquered by the Barbarian tribes.......
@@annemurphy9339 so u just agreed to some white supremacy bull dung( in white supremacy history everybody is white or straight heritage/Hair-ra-tage) ..........
@@ronevergrow8319 my family is from Palermo Sicily. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. Some of my uncles have darker skin. They all have blue eyes. Mediterranean people come in many shades. You see Sicily was controlled many years by the Normans... 😁 You are the racist
@@ronevergrow8319 going to go over some things..... Roman's are not African... northern Italians especially have heavy French influence dna... right over the alps brother... I worked with an Albanian lady.... she wasn't black either. She spoke three languages, Albanian, Italian. And english.... much of my family is from Italy, not black.... its not white supremacy. Its just factual...
Ev ery student studying history, especially ancient history, should see this. It will help them realize that much-vaunted rulers are ordinary persons and not some demi-god on a pedestal. Great reconstructions. Thanks for sharing. You should contact classics departments for distribution.
So we're going to subject students to someone's idea of what these people looked like, and discount the various historical texts of people who were actually alive at the time? These were poor attempts at accurate reconstructions.
Wow, Brutus looked like a movie star! But it looks like they got Octavian's hair wrong. It should have had more wave or curl, at least based on what his statuary bust indicates.
Would it be possible to piece together descriptions of the emperor’s voices, how they spoke, whether they had regional accents, or vocal tics and due a reconstruction of their speaking voices along with the animated faces? Or did most historians not discuss such things?
Julius Caesar was a surprise. I've seen other recreations of Julius Caesar based on statues, and this looks so much more realistic. I can see this man ruling an empire. As for Brutus, that man is destined for a career in the entertainment industry. Molto bello!
This reconstruction of Caesar is done from a bust which is not thought to be the most accurate representation of him (the one held in the Museo Pio-Clementino ion the Vatican, and is known to be a posthumous portrait of him), and cerrtainly seems to have been partly idealized -- it shows him with a full head of hair, and he was known to be balding -- something his political enemies mercilessly taunted him about (one of the honors voted him by the senate was the right to wear a victorious leader's laurel wreath at all times, because it helped conceal his incipient baldness). I saw another reconstruction of Caesar's face, done by a Dutch museum, which is based on a different portrait bust that was made during Caesar's lifetime and is thought to be more accurate (the Tusculum portrait). That reconstruction looks off to me; the shape of the head is odd, and the eyes appear much too close together, but it does show his thinning hair more accurately.
This is so interesting and amazing! To see how people looked thousands of years ago. They look like the way we look now. Some of them were quite the lookers too, I have to admit.😉
@Panagiotis Constantinou ... I personally think, out of this set, Brutus is the most attractive! I think you did a terrific job with both Caligula and Nero ~ sometimes one can just look at a person and tell that they're insane ... well, with your reconstruction of Caligula and Nero, just looking at them back in that time I would have suspected that they were nuts! You did Nero in another set, and he really looks crazy in that set!
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 northern italy is in central europe. Anyway, what that idiot is implying is that italians have darker skin than the people in the video. That is bs.
Looks like the typical Italian you see everyday. I hope those people who say that modern Italians aren't descendants of Romans would recant their stance after watching this.
Captivating, eerie and spooky all at the same time. Wonderful work Panagiotis.
@Baby Hunn nonsense, look just like Romans to me. What, did you think they black?
We can use Unreal Engine 5 to recreate the Roman landscape/architecture!
This is terrible. Did we watch the same video? They took so much liberty, it didn't even look the same after the first two. And what's with the Neanderthal brow? One thing for certain in this period was that Roman artists were incredibly skilled and the emphasis was on real features. So, no, he changed a ton of features. This is not good
Brutus looked like Icardi
These roman were brutal and crucified thousands of people especially the Jews.
Caesar looks like a dude who would appreciate a good joke.
Yes, he would have liked the Biggus-Dickus-Joke....
@@TOFKAS01 and Longus Dongus
You mean jokes from a tiny village in Galia, by a litle strong guy and big fat man carrying menhir?
he enjoys dick jokes like the rest of us
HE LOOKS LIKE THE BOXER VLADIMIR KLITSCHKO!!!
HAHAHAH HE MUST BE THE REINCARNATION OF CAESAR, HOLY CRAP
I can't help wondering what the owners of those faces would think about their being brought back to life after 2,000 or so years.
First thing they say will be, "Dude, what is magical lil box in your hand? Sonetimes you talks to it, and other time you just starring at it?"
@@anthonystark3959 And how completely blown away would they be by the answer? "You can talk to ANYONE IN THE WORLD!?!?!"
@@craigcorson3036 or be an emperor trying to rules the world in age of empires...
I think Caesar would have laughed and said "With this type of power, I would have conquered the whole world !".
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
I've always been interested in Ancient Rome and characters from long lost Empires. The beauty, the savagery, all blend into a fascinating story of man, his failings, his disappointments, his passions, his achievements, his conquests. You're so passionate about bringing these characters to life. Thank you so much.
Interesting that Brutus was good looking, mild, harmless. Surely he had a disarming smile
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
Still a traitor and a coward
I doubt anyones smile was disarming back in these days. No flouride, no dentists, if George Washington had wooden teeth back in the late 1700s imagine what they looked like 2500 yrs ago?
@Sarren how? There was no flouride yet.
@Sarren oh man I'm just going to take your word for it. Why the hell didn't the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries do that? I'd still rather brush my teeth with pee then have no teeth
When I was a child growing up in Manhattan, I used to stare at the Greek and Roman statuary in the Met Museum and swear I saw people who looked like them on the bus, the subway, in shops and on the NYC streets all the time! They were very real to me.
I grew up in the NYC area, too. I've noticed the same ever since I saw the Fayum mummy portraits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
I once saw a Greek statue in the Met that looked exactly like my grandmother
All Greeks I know had brown skin
@@nathanielming2067
going back 3 generations , none of the Greeks in my family have brown skin
@@nickyl9040 u do know this was 2000 years ago right 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
When I walked with my son 20 years ago through Tivoli I told him that the people in the past just look like us now. The only thing was that they had other clothing.
When I walked through Tivoli, the people looked like they were from Staten Island except they had better clothing.
Why shouldn't the ancient romans have looked like us? They are the ancestors of half of Europe, including Frenchs, Spaniards, Portugueses and Italians. Children always resemble their parents. Should these roman parents be different to their children?
@@pg.ledesma You never heard of the barbarian invasions? Guess where the Lombardians of northern Italy came from? Hint: Not from Rome or southern Italy. And speaking of Spaniards, they are a mix of Hispano-Romans, Moors and Goths.
@@capmidnite No. Barbarians only were a few between the roman population (they ended up being assimilated), and moors in Spain, well, only went the ellite of them there, only the nobility and a few landowners, and ended up being driven out. The most of population went on being celt-roman, as evidenced by the language and spanish costumes of today (heiresses of Rome). And the same occured in Italy, France and Portugal.
But, are those barbarians different to germans or scandinavians of today? Answer is no, so my argument holds: people from antiquity were no diferent of us.
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
Absolutely brilliant ! After about 45 years of studying Roman and Greek history, I would never have imagined that I one day would look into the eyes and faces of men who for me were my heroes of a long dead age. Yet here we are, due to your painstaking work, we are able to face those heroes as they genuinly looked to those who knew them personally. These portraits are works of art and truly excellent historical reconstructions in one ! Thank you so much for sharing your work with us.
One thing: the Romans were tanned Mediterranean type just like: George Clooney, Salma hayek, Rafael Nadal, kim Kardashian, catharine Z jones, sean Connery etc etc
My 45 years studying ancient history! Amazing..
@@davidferrari7543 that's quite a gross generalization. Thousands of years ago, people in that region weren't as diverse as they are now
@@davidferrari7543 ...Salma Hayek? LOL she's half native American of the Central Mexico region, and half middle Eastener. This mix wasn't even possible all those thousands of years ago LOL
U are so easy to be manipulated. Those don't look Romans at all.
Thank you for uploading this! It saddens me knowing that these folk are gone for eternity.
They are not. We are still talking about them.
If they were all placed in the crowd, they would go completely unnoticed. The faces are exactly like that of a modern European.
Why should they be different from modern Europeans? Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italians and Romanians, we descend directly from them, they are our ancestors, I don't understand why they should be different from their modern descendants.
Why wouldn't they? 2000 years is not that much in human evolutionary terms. Its not like we're talking about homo erectus here. Even Cro-Magnons wouldn't stand out in a crowd assuming they were dressed in modern attire.
Our Roman ancestors were Homo Sapiens like us.
@Truth is the new hatespeech well, actually he is right...
@@stefanorossi9643 i barely knew that so that is why their face are look alike modern Europeans generally
Omg Messalina is astonishingly beautyful.
(who are descended from a mix of Germanic, Celtic slaves of the Romans as well as Etruscans), the majority of the people shown here were shown to have light brown and light hazel to blue eyes, that as far from reality as you can get for Rome and southern Italy.
Not
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 And, for sure, the obnoxious leftist has to find this video and start spreading his obnoxious moral lessons
@@superswag3252 What the hell does that have to do with political alignment?
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 alot of italians have blue or hazel eyes
Love how they all have kind of a philosophical/intellectual look.
I've been a Latin teacher for over 20 years; studied it for over 30. This language as been my passion since I was 13. To see these images come to life is breathtaking and wondrous! But I think the best part is after studying and teaching year after year about these monumental figures and powerplayers in one of the greatest civilizations of all time, to find out Pompey looks like someone's creepy uncle and Caesar your best friend's dad! 😆 😆 🤣
Urbs Aeterna :)
Salve! Thank you for keeping Latin alive and helping younger generations better understand their own languages, so cool you also love and respect Latin :) may i ask from which country are you from, and where do you teach currently, in which nation? Vivat Roma Aeterna!
@@dmp1520 Multas gratias tibi! :) Thank you for your kind words!! I am American and taught and lived in Texas most of my life. I had an amazing Latin teacher in high school that inspired me to pursue the Classics. Been to Rome twice--will never forget my trips to the Eternal City! Was lucky to go when I was young and carefree, lol! Vale, amice! :)
@@tensaibr Semper! Ita vero! :)
Est satis hodie
You can see why Claudius fell for Messalina - what a beauty!
Yea, she was very pretty.
Her DSL must have worked magic on Claudius’ root.
I'm gonna make a time machine go back and elbow this Claudius geeza out of the picture.
@@daz7122 he was the 2nd best julio-claudian ruler after Augustus of course
@@unratedPT Elbow both of those geezas out off the way.
You have done for thousands of us, who have stood in front statues and tried to imagine, what we couldn't do to our own satisfaction. Thank you for this wonderful gift !! Pat. America
What amazes me most about ancient Rome was how quickly the army could construct earth works and other engineering. Takes months for them to just finish a sidewalk today!
It helps when the penalty for desertion was death and slavery was perfectly legal.
I've often said the same thing. Plus, think of it this way, Roman concrete was more difficult for them to produce and gain large quantities of. Modern construction crews can simply bulk purchase the large quantities needed quickly and it's present, ready to use with big mixer trucks.
The reason it takes that long today is politics. Cities and states with funding allocations paying off their political supporters, from contractors to union bosses. The longer the work takes, the more money is paid out. You always see a lot more road construction in the months leading up to elections and immediately following them than you will any other time.
They’ve been working on a stretch of road here for 4 years.
@@annjohnson6193 Just look at how much mkney ended up going into "the Big Dig" around Boston. Obscene amount of money, far more than was originally allocated.
Marcus Agrippa the unsung builder of Rome, and the Empire as a whole. Military genius to boot.
Agrippa was just a commoner from a wealthy family, new money, that Octavian (Augustus) befriended in what we would call “boarding school” when he was about 14/15, a grown man in their time.
Many of the projects he started or made (what we call blueprints) were created 100s of years after his death and dedicated to him.
Military genius aka slaver and mass killer
I have a MA in Ancient history. Thank you for this video. It felt like finally meeting old friends!
Well done. I know these faces. My mom was from Lazio province. My son looks like Nero. Fortunately, he is kind, helpful. The school gave him an award for being a good neighbor.
As well as for playing the lyre?
@@jwadaow violin. His violin teacher said. He is my most helpful and kind student. The teacher broke his arm and my son went to class early to help set up.He was not the best player in the class.
Nero was actually good
@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 Indeed he seems to have been good but ya know it's the senate who made history
Maybe they are in your line of ancestry…
The sculptures make me imagine faces very different from what they are shown. Otavio's mouth, for example, is much more aligned with his nose in the sculpture than it is in the created image. It is the same with Messalina's mouth and nose. Nero has a prominent chin, but his jaw does not seem prominent as it is shown in the created image. He is also wide-eyed in the sculpture, very different from his eyes in the image. To me, the proportions of the faces (sculpture and image) are different.
Claudia... Panagiotis stated in the description that he created these images " Modifying photos from ancient roman statues and accurate descriptions of the time about the subjects' physical appearance."
He did not use the statues shown in video alone. He used a variety of descriptions available.
@@TrudyPatootie I think he just wanted them more attractive.
@@hjhjkhfkfkd Which is a little Greek of him and not that Roman. The Greeks liked to idealize folks
I was thinking the same thing. The simulated images, to me, look very different to the statues. As per the video Description, the images are not based solely on the statues, but incorporate descriptions from those times. If I hadn't read the Description I would have been cynical about the images. Agrippa's bust, as a prime example, is nothing like the image at all, as well as being much younger than the bust portrays. Disconcerting compilations.
The truth
Caligula is such a handsome young lad, I bet he is gonna be a good emperor. Oh, wait~
He was the best Roman emperor.
@@GAIVSCALIGVLA Haters would say that your opinion is a bit biased
@@GAIVSCALIGVLA. … if you like crazed, bloodthirsty tyrants, lol.
Caligula was the worst and he was nasty. How have you not seen the movie, Caligula?
He was better than narrated. He was not a nice guy but also not the monster It was depicted. As always history is written by the winners, either political opponents or christians. You must go deeper in History to know what the accepted truth Is like
I am half greek and half italian and you did a wonderful job! Bravo!
I'm sorry but you aren't related to ancient Greeks they were absolutely different nation. It's like modern and ancient Egypt
you must be gorgeous!
@@ЭдитКамю how do U know?!?!
@@ЭдитКамю Yes he does
@@ЭдитКамю just because you steppe people have no history it doesn't mean everyone doesn't have History
Can we make a movie about Rome with those faces using deepfakes and using the original language(Latin) that will be awesome!🙃🤘
Getting better & better. Watched by bots & trans bots perhaps........
Mediterranean people have brown skin and curly hair they are mixed
@@nathanielming2067 well I'm half Italian and i can vouch for that! We have our beautiful jewfro!😊
@@eternaldarkness6228 exactly when that fro comes from ✊🏽✊🏽 and remember Italians dealt with prejudice too and wear also called racist names and were lynched
@@nathanielming2067 tell me about it!😬 everybody thinks we are part of the"cosa nostra" I'm a paramedic for fuck sake!😂
This is phenomenal. After spending nearly 47 years studying Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, it was wonderful to see this series you have done. To see the faces of the men and women I have read about from the anicent past, to see much better than ever before how they all looked, you simply must add more to this series. This truly is new territory in the study of history and the source material to expound upon is practically unlimited. Thank you for this post here.
Thank you for saying that!🙂 I try to present history and ancient civilizations as something interesting, learning something in the process. But sometimes I get discouraged when I see cat videos with millions of views. Yet I keep going.
@@panagiotisconstantinou do you have any reconstruction statues of the nabatean herod dynasty through his so called Father antipater or will we never know how herods father looked only by looking at Herod we might see a similar face
...incredible “modern” faces...they could easily blend in in today’s Rome
Ha, they could blend in Staten Island or the NJ suburbs!
Why wouldn’t they?
@@banquo60615 Because some places have been invaded (and invaded/enslaved other cultures) so many times, the demographics can easily shift over time. For example, many current day Greeks have a bit of Slavic blood in them from post-Classical era invasions. They discovered mummified remains in western China with blond hair.
@@banquo60615 ...well...the influx of “ northern “ tribes could have change the appearance of the people in that region...
@Al Strider ...read it again...I said “ could have “ not would have....I was just astounded how well those faces would still
fit very well today.....
Massallina and Brutus are WOW .
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
Even Caligula is wow
Massallina looks nothing like the statue though. It's like they slapped a random pretty face on it.
@@NavidIsANoob to be honest she was known to be very attractive.
@@francescofane Yes but attractive standards back then could have been entirely different from what they are now. And obviously the face they pasted onto it has a very modern definition of attractive.
For those of us curious about historical figures, and what they might have looked like, this is a great chanel. Thank you for your hard work
Another stunning video, I love it, thank you. While in Bath (UK), three years ago, I spotted a beautiful man walking down the street. He had classical looks, curly hair, strong features and walked proudly with his head up - he looked like he had just stepped down from one of the statue's plynths in the Roman Baths in the town, and would not have looked out of place in this line up 😊
This and Mystery Scoop's approach should be added to history classes in school, to humanize the names. To make the students realize they were real living, breathing people like they are now. Make them more relatable.
0:49 Marcus Crasus was a dead ringer for Ricardo Montalban from the 80s show Fantasy Island
I've seen a lot of renditions of Julius Caesar from statues. I am used to seeing him on coins. I really like your rendition, it fits how I imagine him much better than the more common renditions you see.
I think a lot of these engines use the faces of actors to recreate the images. I saw one where Caeser looked just like the guy who plays the lawyer son on Yellowstone. I think this one uses more common peoples faces so you get a more true representation.
Daaaymn. Brutus really do be lookin like a snacc tho. 👏
Brutus is beautifull
My favorite character in ancient Rome is Aurelia Cotta (mother of Julius Caesar) who was reputed to be the most beautiful of her time and regarded to have been more beautiful than Helen of Troy. Not to mention her influence to make her son the most famous of them all. Could P. Constantinou make 'live' of her? It would be most intriguing.
Although Aurelia Cotta was considered an ideal Roman woman and highly intelligent, there is no source that describes her as the most beautiful woman of her time and more beautiful than Helen of Troy.
@@luciusjulius8320very true.
I definitely would've been in the official Brutus fan club back in the day. 😂
"...and Brutus is an honorable man."
- Shakespeare, *Julius Caesar*
I would be in the Mesalina fan club
Yeah he def could have got cheeks
Same hahaha
@@mrsdragonite I do hear he likes it from the back
Soundtrack from Conan the Barbarian, brilliant art and music.
Merci
Basil Poledouris..
Yargl...
To bad the Romans hated the barbarians
The music is fantastic! Thank you for citing source.
2:24 Brutus look like one of Paul Walker's brothers, one that keeps getting into trouble with the law 😂😂😭
Thanks for posting - it was interesting to see the depictions of Emperors Claudius and Nero.
You know when Crassus actually looks like your ancient history teacher and is actually teaching about him now
Crassus looks like the cruelest peron ever.
@@akinkinalexandr5672 He looks jist like my auntie
@@akinkinalexandr5672 I mean it is ancient Rome.People can be cruel af and also can be nice af.
That was absolutely fantastic really enjoyed seeing the busts, and then change into what the person’s face might of looked like and listening to the music made it so real. Thank you very much that was really good.
Everyone is thirsting after Brutus, here I'm like daym Octavian is fiine
Agrippa and Caligula were very handsome as well
same
Same
Augustus busts were idealized. In reality he was supposed to be awkwardly built, bad teeth, and had a limp. Caesar as well, in reality he was balding but most of his statues shows him with a full head of hair.
Ghee
Some of the best interpretations I've seen. congrats :)
All of your work is absolutely amazing, not only in it's quality, also in it's quantity and scope. Fascinated by the story of mankind's history from an early age now into the last phase of human life, it is a distinct pleasure to see so many people and peoples I have read about and seen dipictions of come to life, as it were, through your technique which certainly does seem as flawlessly as if by magic. Thank you also on your personal stand that irregardless of all the evil intentions of some historical figures has no place in your artwork. Thank you ever so much for giving me the rare and unlooked for pleasure of a life-like glimpse of some of my old familiar studies.
I want to see what the great emperors Constantine & Justinian looked liked. Zeno, Stillicho, Rufinus, Arsinoe, the Komenenos dynasty. I loved this so much. Please make more
I appreciate all the hard work that went into producing this. It is masterful. Bringing to life what sculptures, as incredible as they are, lacks what our technological artists can achieve today.
2:18 Brutus genuinely looking like a Serie A football player
Who?
Looks a bit like Antonio Griezman
05:29 AWESOME! This one was so spot on...great work
Claudius actually looked very much like Derek Jacobi who played him in "I, Claudius".
I was thinking the same thing
A great observation!
Very nicely done. Thank you for your efforts.
Brutus was gorgeous!
Right?
lookin like Paul Walker lol
I don't think he was blonde and with blue eyes though 🤔
A HUNK!!!
Yes he was!
Caligula wasn’t an ugly looking monster, psychopaths can be handsome...
But he was a monster nonetheless.
He was a monster mostly to the senatorial class. He got along with plebs famously. Also, despite his reputation as a big spender he somehow still left Claudius with a full treasury.
a la Ted Bundy and Tim McVeigh
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
To be fair he was said to be quite good in his first 7 months and was loved by many. Only after suffering from some sort of brain damage when his behavior changed. Same with Henry VIII.
Panagiotis you did a really amazing job. Im absolutely in love with your work. You are a true roman! 🇮🇹❤🇬🇷 SPQR!
"HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!"
Needed to be done.
I think I found one of those Roman army marches. Most probably, this is the correct version of it:
ruclips.net/video/P7bkjfRuuWw/видео.html
"Is there some other form of law, you wretched woman?"
YOU are a *VASSAL* of rome.
Love that show. Love titus pullo.
And what an incredible actor young octavian was.
Wish we could have 8 more seasons
But then again, a women's role has always suited you best
Thanks for bringing my ancient history to life , that was brilliant!!!
Julius Caesar was not only a powerful man but also one who felt very deeply and that is why he took on the wrath of Rome for his love of Cleopatra.
Finally an accurate recreation, instead of the silly and usually dark looking recreation of the Romans
Agreed!
This isn't the image of the Proto Romans this is the image after 476 - 493ce Odoacer after the Proto Romans were conquered by the Barbarian tribes.......
@@annemurphy9339 so u just agreed to some white supremacy bull dung( in white supremacy history everybody is white or straight heritage/Hair-ra-tage) ..........
@@ronevergrow8319 my family is from Palermo Sicily. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. Some of my uncles have darker skin. They all have blue eyes. Mediterranean people come in many shades. You see Sicily was controlled many years by the Normans... 😁 You are the racist
@@ronevergrow8319 going to go over some things..... Roman's are not African... northern Italians especially have heavy French influence dna... right over the alps brother... I worked with an Albanian lady.... she wasn't black either. She spoke three languages, Albanian, Italian. And english.... much of my family is from Italy, not black.... its not white supremacy. Its just factual...
Ev ery student studying history, especially ancient history, should see this. It will help them realize that much-vaunted rulers are ordinary persons and not some demi-god on a pedestal. Great reconstructions. Thanks for sharing. You should contact classics departments for distribution.
So we're going to subject students to someone's idea of what these people looked like, and discount the various historical texts of people who were actually alive at the time? These were poor attempts at accurate reconstructions.
I wrote a book on Tiberius in which all these characters play a role. Amazing to see their likeness in real life.
Wow! This deserves way more views ! This looked so accurate ! You can tell Nero was a wack job based on his eyes 😂
I see Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Nero. 🤷🏼♀️
Totally agreed with you 💯he deserves more views and more subscribers ,his work is amazing👍👍
He still looks like a creep.
Fairly good chance Caligula, his mother's brother, was his father.
What I thought as well...the nuts are loose upon the bolts...at any moment, they would fall....
I love this kind of things, makes me immerge in History... thank you very much!
Thank you for this... bringing to life the people whose historical accounts I read about so often.
Damn man that's incredible work!!! Thank you!!!
Wow, Brutus looked like a movie star! But it looks like they got Octavian's hair wrong. It should have had more wave or curl, at least based on what his statuary bust indicates.
Breathtaking! Many thanks for this.
Love it! Keep the amazing work! 😁❤👍
Thank you! 😄
Would it be possible to piece together descriptions of the emperor’s voices, how they spoke, whether they had regional accents, or vocal tics and due a reconstruction of their speaking voices along with the animated faces?
Or did most historians not discuss such things?
Tiberius spoke slowly and Claudius had a stutter
Amazing work!
Is there a specific method or program you are using to make these depections?
Εξαιρετική δουλειά, ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ!
Julius Caesar was a surprise. I've seen other recreations of Julius Caesar based on statues, and this looks so much more realistic. I can see this man ruling an empire.
As for Brutus, that man is destined for a career in the entertainment industry. Molto bello!
Julius Caesar wasn't emperor
I can see him running the 99, one day after Amy puts him there
This reconstruction of Caesar is done from a bust which is not thought to be the most accurate representation of him (the one held in the Museo Pio-Clementino ion the Vatican, and is known to be a posthumous portrait of him), and cerrtainly seems to have been partly idealized -- it shows him with a full head of hair, and he was known to be balding -- something his political enemies mercilessly taunted him about (one of the honors voted him by the senate was the right to wear a victorious leader's laurel wreath at all times, because it helped conceal his incipient baldness). I saw another reconstruction of Caesar's face, done by a Dutch museum, which is based on a different portrait bust that was made during Caesar's lifetime and is thought to be more accurate (the Tusculum portrait). That reconstruction looks off to me; the shape of the head is odd, and the eyes appear much too close together, but it does show his thinning hair more accurately.
He looks like Wladimir Klitschko
This is amazing, it helps me visualize how these people looked much better than damaged ancient statues ever could.
Julius Caesar looking like Wladimir Klitchko lol... good vid!:)
lol. I always thought ceasar looked like putin.
This is amazing work friend. I became emotional.
This video is AWESOME! I watched it twice, great job! 👏 👍
This is so interesting and amazing! To see how people looked thousands of years ago. They look like the way we look now. Some of them were quite the lookers too, I have to admit.😉
how do u decide 👀 n hair color?!
also number two @1:08 mr.maracus looks my father's look-alike🌟😘👍🏽😎🤗
Not 🚫 satisfied with @6:22 misalina,
મુર્તિ મા ચેહરો ભરાવદાર બતાવિયો છે, જ્યારે ફોટો માં ચેહરો નાનો બતાવ્યો છે.🙄
Thank you, kyrios Constantinou!
Seeing Messalina come to life explains a lot!
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
@Panagiotis Constantinou ... I personally think, out of this set, Brutus is the most attractive! I think you did a terrific job with both Caligula and Nero ~ sometimes one can just look at a person and tell that they're insane ... well, with your reconstruction of Caligula and Nero, just looking at them back in that time I would have suspected that they were nuts! You did Nero in another set, and he really looks crazy in that set!
Fascinating. Thanks for all your hard work.
Hi there, love your work. Have you done a Real Face of Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus? Or Publius Canidius Crassus?
Messalina looks like a splendid banquet,with poisonous treats...
Thanks!
Thank you very much 👍
@@panagiotisconstantinou You are welcome!
@@panagiotisconstantinou You are Welcome! 👍
Superb work! Behind the statues and stories, they were real people who would fit easily into the societies of today.
This is brilliant, thanks so much for your work and sharing. 🙂❤
Amaizing!!!!!! Real exaiting! Wonderful video
I love these face creations. Nero creeped me out. Thank you for sharing with us. ❤️
Be so cool to do a an animated feature using these exact likenesses.
Wahooo ! Incredible ! thank you for posting this ! It's very interesting
They look exactly like Italians of today.
@hitler did noting worong so italians
@@xdz1039 Italians are southern European, in fact they're Mediterranean. They are NOT central European.
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 northern italy is in central europe. Anyway, what that idiot is implying is that italians have darker skin than the people in the video. That is bs.
@@xdz1039 They look awesome, especially the woman 😌
They are looking more like celts instead of modern italians.
These videos are wonderful!
Congrats, a awesome work
Very good depictions and resemblance combined with super MUSIC. Thanks.
A very good work!👍⭐
3:59 is not Julia the Elder but Livia Drusilla (Octavianus Augustus' wife)
Stunning work as usual...thank you.
Amazing! I'm italian, live in Rome and actually Crassus looks quite like my homeowner... and Pompey looks like Daniel Craig
He found some photos that looked like the sculptures and added that creepy moving thing.
Excellent work. So impressive. Thanks for sharing your craft.
Brutus' face is quite different from the one shown in Popeye's cartoons. I was deceived in my entire childhood!!
Looks like the typical Italian you see everyday. I hope those people who say that modern Italians aren't descendants of Romans would recant their stance after watching this.
Great content, it’s wonderful to see their likeness come alive, so to speak!! Thanks.
Can you do another one but include Cicero. He is my favorite man.
I love your name