>>12951697answer to this you fucking cuck
https://medium.com/@davieco/were-roman-emperors-blonde-4his table uses 5 sources to describe emperors from Augustus to Commodus, two are Latin sources Pliny and Suetonius, one is Sieglin, W. (1935), one is irrelevant since it is mentioned only once (but it’s also dubious) and another is a Greek source John Malalas.
The original title of Sieglin (1935) is “Die blonden Haare der indogermanischen Völker des Altertums”, in English: “The blond hair of the Indo-Germanic peoples of antiquity”[], this is clearly a Nazi propaganda book from the same years. It isn’t an ancient source and should have never been used in the first place, it clearly shows the bad faith of the authors.
This source is invalid and must be dismissed, and since it’s taken as a credible reference for the hair color of seven Emperors the table already looks suspicious.
The other source used quite frequently is John Malalas, but as you can easily find looking up on Wikipedia, “it possesses little historical value” and it contains numerous mistakes about many historical events, hence it should not be trusted at all for trivial details as eyes and hair color.
Even if it’s merely a fiction rather than credible historiography, I’ll post a table with every description Malalas does of each emperor, but it’s just to show how easily Malalas descriptions don’t line up with the Latin sources. “The chronicle of John Malalas” (1986)
these are your sources
