tallest roman emperor

[tali122]

Maximinus Thrax the roman emperor was reportedly 8ft 6ins - any proof of this?

[ermolnar]

In the Historia Augusta, look under The Two Maximini:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Histor ia_Augusta/Maximini_duo*.html

Under section 6, it says: "He was of such size, so Cordus reports, that men said he was six inches over eight feet in height; and his thumb was so huge that he used his wife's bracelet for a ring. Other stories are reported almost as common talk � that he could drag waggons with his hands and move a laden cart by himself, that if he struck a horse with his fist, he loosened its teeth, or with his heel, broke its legs, that he could crumble tufaceous stone and split saplings, and that he was called, finally, by some Milo of Croton, by others Hercules, and by others Antaeus"

[ermolnar]

woops, that link didnt seem to work

you can google historia augusta, and it should take u here:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/home.html