>>3706614Marcus Aurelius
Skin: shining, and transparent (Julian. Caesars. 317c)
Commodus
Hair: blonde (Herodian. i. 12. 5)
Eyes: grey (Malalas. Chronogr. 33)
Didius Julianus
Hair: blonde (in a coin inscription he is described as looking like Commodus) (Coins of the Roman Empire, and the British museum. 5. ixix)
Elagabulus
Skin: fair, bright face (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca)
Constantius Chlorus
Hair: fair (Zonaras. Epitome. Historiarum. 12. 31b)
Constantine I
Hair: black (John Mauropous)
Eyes: blue (Polemo of Laodicea. De Physiognomonica)
Skin: ruddy, fair (Euseb. Life of Const; Malalas. Chronogr. 13. 1)
Constantius II
Hair: blonde (George Cedrenus. Compendium Historiarum. p. 521)
Jovian
Eyes: blue (Canter, 1928, p. 396)
Valentinian I
Eyes: blue (Amm. Marc. 30. 9. 6)
Theodosius I
Hair: blonde (Cedrenus. Compendium Historiarum. p. 552; Aur. Vict. Caes. 48.8)
Arcadius
Skin: swarthy (subnigri) (Philostorgius. xii. 3)
Theodosius II
Hair: golden (Cedrenus. Compendium Historiarum. p. 587)
Anastasius I
Eyes: 1 blue eye, 1 brown eye (Michael Psellos. Chronographia. 69)
Justinian I
Skin: ruddy (Historia Arcana viii. 4ff)
Theodora
hair: black (John Mauropous. Johannis Euchaitarum Metropolitae quae supersunt in cod. Poems. 57, 75, 80, 87)
Heraclius
Eyes: blue (Leo Grammatikos, Hist. i. 47)
Skin: fair (Leo Grammatikos, Hist. i. 47)
Basil II
Eyes: blue (Michael Psellos. Chronographia. 35)
Zoe Porphyrogenita
Hair: golden ( Michael Psellos. Chronographia. 86)
Skin: white (Michael Psellos. Chronographia. 86)
