S8 E01 - Kira Jones on AI Reconstructions

*WARNING* EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED*

We’re back with Series 8 and kicking off the rage this week we welcome art historian, and Latin Consultant for Wandavision (is that not the coolest credit ever?) Dr. Kira Jones and she wants to rage ENOUGH WITH THE AI RECONSTRUCTIONS ALREADY!

We’ll be talking about how many reconstructions are made from careless and false information. How Ancient Romans didn’t view portraits in the same way we would, how the Cleopatra coin is more about Mark Anthony than Cleopatra, and a lady whose funeral portrait came with interchangeable hair.

There’s a couple of links below to images we’ll be discussing:

The Nero reconstruction

https://twitter.com/FlavianSophist/status/1100223901500669952/photo/1

The Cleopatra Coin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/1J_GFWtaSsaTgdslRNGBeA

You can follow Kira on Twitter @FalvianSophist

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