Ooo! Thank you for the info! Charles also had a bust of himself as Augustus,
Hee! I think every king of some stature has at one time tried to compare himself with Augustus. Didn't know Charles had jumped that train though, but that is so great!
The Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick II also compared himself with Augustus, called a new Pax Romana and order a sarcophagus in porphyr( the purple-ish stone only used by Roman emperors). Then again Fredrick II was also excommunicated by the Pope, bought Jerusalem (and subsequently regained the Pope's favour), wrote a book on Falconeering and claimed that the world had been duped by three impostors: Moses, Jesus and Muhammed.(and that quote was why he got excommunicated in the first place. ;P) And all of this is especially cool when you consider that he lived in the 13th Century.
And yes, I'm rambling about German history again.
Barbossa did not die," which cracked me up.
LOL! I can understand that. Well, they both had very long beards.
no subject
Charles also had a bust of himself as Augustus,
Hee! I think every king of some stature has at one time tried to compare himself with Augustus. Didn't know Charles had jumped that train though, but that is so great!
The Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick II also compared himself with Augustus, called a new Pax Romana and order a sarcophagus in porphyr( the purple-ish stone only used by Roman emperors). Then again Fredrick II was also excommunicated by the Pope, bought Jerusalem (and subsequently regained the Pope's favour), wrote a book on Falconeering and claimed that the world had been duped by three impostors: Moses, Jesus and Muhammed.(and that quote was why he got excommunicated in the first place. ;P)
And all of this is especially cool when you consider that he lived in the 13th Century.
And yes, I'm rambling about German history again.
Barbossa did not die," which cracked me up.
LOL! I can understand that. Well, they both had very long beards.