>>2989431 (LB)
What makes this interesting is that no one can really be sure what Augustus looked like because artwork depicting his image was heavily idealized. And for the few photos of Zuck angled to look like the busts of Agustus its looking like mostly lighting and camera angle. Zuckerberg doesn't actually look like Augustus.
Look at the unretouched photos of Zuck. .He has a long, narrow face with rounded jaw lines and big, deep-socketed alien-like eyes, and huge ears. The real Zuckerberg barely looks like a human being.
Augustus allegedy had a broader face, with a square jaw line, low profile eyebrow arch, typical Roman nose and small mouth with very thin lips. Zuck used to have a big Jewfro, but he's been ironing it out lately.
From Wiki:
"His biographer Suetonius, writing about a century after Augustus' death, described his appearance as: "... unusually handsome and exceedingly graceful at all periods of his life, though he cared nothing for personal adornment. He was so far from being particular about the dressing of his hair, that he would have several barbers working in a hurry at the same time, and as for his beard he now had it clipped and now shaved, while at the very same time he would either be reading or writing something ... He had clear, bright eyes ... His teeth were wide apart, small, and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclined to golden; his eyebrows met. His ears were of moderate size, and his nose projected a little at the top and then bent ever so slightly inward. His complexion was between dark and fair. He was short of stature, although Julius Marathus, his freedman and keeper of his records, says that he was five feet and nine inches (just under 5 ft. 7 in., or 1.70 meters, in modern height measurements), but this was concealed by the fine proportion and symmetry of his figure, and was noticeable only by comparison with some taller person standing beside him...",[251] adding that "his shoes [were] somewhat high-soled, to make him look taller than he really was".[252] Scientific analysis of traces of paint found in his official statues show that he most likely had light brown hair and eyes (his hair and eyes were depicted as the same color).[253]
His official images were very tightly controlled and idealized, drawing from a tradition of Hellenistic royal portraiture rather than the tradition of realism in Roman portraiture. He first appeared on coins at the age of 19, and from about 29 BC "the explosion in the number of Augustan portraits attests a concerted propaganda campaign aimed at dominating all aspects of civil, religious, economic and military life with Augustus' person."[254] The early images did indeed depict a young man, but although there were gradual changes his images remained youthful until he died in his seventies, by which time they had "a distanced air of ageless majesty".[255] Among the best known of many surviving portraits are the Augustus of Prima Porta, the image on the Ara Pacis, and the Via Labicana Augustus, which shows him as a priest. Several cameo portraits include the Blacas Cameo and Gemma Augustea."
But, I get why Zuck is obsessed with the dude. He obviously fancies himself as an 'emperor' of sorts. Facebook, like Ancient Rome, enslaves and dominates the lives the majority of the people in the world. And hopefully, like Rome, Zuck and facebook will crash and burn and vanish like a fart in the wind.