He was actually pretty progressive and well-liked in the earlier years of his reign. Of course we all know how that eventually turned out... Such an ignomious end for Julius Caesar's bloodline.
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He was actually very well liked throughout his emperorship! Even centuries after his reign the romans prayed for his return!
So why is he commonly remembered as a dickwad? He refused to play political games with the senate, so they forged very negative tellings of his life. He also persecuted Christians quite hard
and they shifted the blame of the burning of rome onto him
Looks like he really let himself go also!
You can see him turn into John Belushi!
i wouldn't exactly call the physical changes we're seeing here "aging"
Yeah, I mean, he was 30 when he died in 68.
So ironically the most signs of "aging" we would expect to see would be in the first one and a half rows, from age 12/13 to his early 20s. Not from 20 to 30.