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Can't we see a bit more of his hair?

That is not possible I'm afraid.

 

I will tell you though that I did have to crop the photo, else the answer would be given away.

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BTW, MPC, if he showed the hair, it would be a dead give-away to a certain party. :yes:

There is no hair visible in the original uncropped photo. That having been said, there are several clues to this person's identity in the photo I've posted.

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BTW, MPC, if he showed the hair, it would be a dead give-away to a certain party. :yes:

There is no hair visible in the original uncropped photo. That having been said, there are several clues to this person's identity in the photo I've posted.

 

He's got that crazy Alexander hair. It's not Alexander is it?

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BTW, MPC, if he showed the hair, it would be a dead give-away to a certain party. :yes:

There is no hair visible in the original uncropped photo. That having been said, there are several clues to this person's identity in the photo I've posted.

 

 

Is he a youthful Hercules? (With fanged lion's cape over his head)?

 

-- Nephele

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No to all the above. This is an actual documented human being, as opposed to a mythological figure.

 

(Neph was on to something though ...)

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No to all the above. This is an actual documented human being, as opposed to a mythological figure.

 

(Neph was on to something though ...)

 

Ah, Commodus, then? He wore the occasional animal skin, too, didn't he?

 

-- Nephele

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Ah, Commodus, then? He wore the occasional animal skin, too, didn't he?

 

-- Nephele

 

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This is driving me mad - because I actually saw this photo recently when I was searching for an answer to one of Big A's questions. But I can't for the life of me think who he was. I shall have to dredge into my ever-fading memory banks. (Since I turned the half-century, I can remember what I was doing when I was 3, but not what I did yesterday - be warned, all of you!)

 

He's not Roman, is he? As MPC mentioned, he has a look of Alex, but that's probably just the Greek idealism in the portrait. I'll be back after dinner....

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This is driving me mad - because I actually saw this photo recently when I was searching for an answer to one of Big A's questions. But I can't for the life of me think who he was. I shall have to dredge into my ever-fading memory banks. (Since I turned the half-century, I can remember what I was doing when I was 3, but not what I did yesterday - be warned, all of you!)

 

He's not Roman, is he? As MPC mentioned, he has a look of Alex, but that's probably just the Greek idealism in the portrait. I'll be back after dinner....

No comment :yes:

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Let me expand slightly: Although this plebeian made history in mathematics, geometry presented him with considerable challenges.

BTW, Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a Patrician; tsk, tsk...

 

No. The Marcelli were plebeian. See HERE: they were the most illustrious of the plebeian branches of the Claudii.

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Nero? :angry: Caracalla? :huh: Elagabalus? :(

 

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Gaius Octavius got it! Woo hoo!

 

 

 

 

Oh, wait ... no, he didn't. Sorry.

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