Your favourite Roman Emperor and why? (C.History Thread? C. History Thread.)

Tiberius for obvious reasons (Nero being a close second.)

Tiberius was a chill guy. He was a good general, got shit done. He didn't let power go to his head. He tried to keep the old republic going, despite everyone hating his fucking guts. And at the end of it all? Went fucking mental and built a palace on a party island where he got freaky with his greek philosopher buddies and pushed people off cliffs for a laugh.

Truly a king among men.

C. is for classic not for that other naughty word.

Justinian.

Augustus undoubtedly.

Justinian.

Leave it to you to pick the possibly most obscure, hipster emperor of all time. Ok, Ok, I'll humour you, who in the ever living fuck was Justinian? All I know that he was in Constantinople at a time when Rome was completely irrelevant.

Gaius Marius. Dude kicked ass in Gaul, reformed the Roman army, came back from exile in Africa, killed a bunch of statesmen and exiled Lucius Sulla, and served seven consulships, dying in his seventh, claiming that he had not been ambitious enough in life despite his massive reforms, immense wealth, and unprecedented amount of consul election wins.

Probably the one who founded it and was smart enough not to be overambitious with titles like his uncle.

Augustus Caesar.

And Nero too because he's such an interesting waifu character. Entire life was manipulated, poor guy.

Gaius Marius. Dude kicked ass in Gaul, reformed the Roman army, came back from exile in Africa, killed a bunch of statesmen and exiled Lucius Sulla, and served seven consulships, dying in his seventh, claiming that he had not been ambitious enough in life despite his massive reforms, immense wealth, and unprecedented amount of consul election wins.

I said who was your favourite Roman emperor? He was from the Roman Republic. Like 80 years before Octavian. He was badass though, I'll give you that.

Justinian.

Leave it to you to pick the possibly most obscure, hipster emperor of all time. Ok, Ok, I'll humour you, who in the ever living fuck was Justinian? All I know that he was in Constantinople at a time when Rome was completely irrelevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I

Probably the one who founded it and was smart enough not to be overambitious with titles like his uncle.

Augustus Caesar.

And Nero too because he's such an interesting waifu character. Entire life was manipulated, poor guy.

Nero is so cool.

At a time when being gay was ok in Roman society, he LITERALLY got killed for being SO INCREDIBLY GAY. That's one hell of a way to go.

Justinian.

Leave it to you to pick the possibly most obscure, hipster emperor of all time. Ok, Ok, I'll humour you, who in the ever living fuck was Justinian? All I know that he was in Constantinople at a time when Rome was completely irrelevant.

He did the over ambitious challenge of trying to retake Roman territory with Belisarius (vastly underrated) as his general. Under his rule he wiped out the Vandal kingdom in Africa, retook much of the boot, and made pretty great reforms.

He'd have kept the boot too if reinforcements were able to get through and hold, and he didn't call back Belisarius to Constantinople. When he came back to Rome, he found it was once again completely taken over by the Ostrogoths.

Gaius Marius. Dude kicked ass in Gaul, reformed the Roman army, came back from exile in Africa, killed a bunch of statesmen and exiled Lucius Sulla, and served seven consulships, dying in his seventh, claiming that he had not been ambitious enough in life despite his massive reforms, immense wealth, and unprecedented amount of consul election wins.

I said who was your favourite Roman emperor? He was from the Roman Republic. Like 80 years before Octavian. He was badass though, I'll give you that.

Oh, right. Kinda glanced over that...

Marcus Aurelius was a cool dude. He solidified Stoicism and kicked a punch of Parthians and Germanic Barbarians in the ass before squashing a revolt from the east.

Probably the one who founded it and was smart enough not to be overambitious with titles like his uncle.

Augustus Caesar.

And Nero too because he's such an interesting waifu character. Entire life was manipulated, poor guy.

Nero is so cool.

At a time when being gay was ok in Roman society, he LITERALLY got killed for being SO INCREDIBLY GAY. That's one hell of a way to go.

Wha? He killed himself by stabbing himself in the neck.

Can we all take a moment out of our busy lives to admire Scipio Africanus?

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The GREATEST general OF ALL TIME.

Probably the one who founded it and was smart enough not to be overambitious with titles like his uncle.

Augustus Caesar.

And Nero too because he's such an interesting waifu character. Entire life was manipulated, poor guy.

Nero is so cool.

At a time when being gay was ok in Roman society, he LITERALLY got killed for being SO INCREDIBLY GAY. That's one hell of a way to go.

Wha? He killed himself by stabbing himself in the neck.

Wait. Who was the one that got assassinated for having homo sex 24/7 then?

Can we all take a moment out of our busy lives to admire Scipiio Africanus?

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The GREATEST general OF ALL TIME.

yee yee, son.

Probably the one who founded it and was smart enough not to be overambitious with titles like his uncle.

Augustus Caesar.

And Nero too because he's such an interesting waifu character. Entire life was manipulated, poor guy.

Nero is so cool.

At a time when being gay was ok in Roman society, he LITERALLY got killed for being SO INCREDIBLY GAY. That's one hell of a way to go.

Wha? He killed himself by stabbing himself in the neck.

Wait. Who was the one that got assassinated for having homo sex 24/7 then?

*shrug*

The one that castrated some guy and made him his wife.

Roman Emperors were such crazy folks, I'm amazed they got anything done.

The one that castrated some guy and made him his wife.

Roman Emperors were such crazy folks, I'm amazed they got anything done.

Yeah, just look at Caligula, made his fucking horse a Consul. Then went around claiming he was a god, talking to himself and having seizures in public.

Augustus.

The one that castrated some guy and made him his wife.

Roman Emperors were such crazy folks, I'm amazed they got anything done.

They were competent for a while until the started getting assassinated left and right. No stability helped contribute to their downfall.

The one that castrated some guy and made him his wife.

Roman Emperors were such crazy folks, I'm amazed they got anything done.

They were competent for a while until the started getting assassinated left and right. No stability helped contribute to their downfall.

Yeah, if the Romans weren't so fond of killing each other, I think history might have turned out differently.

The empire reached critical mass, it would have fallen regardless. By the time it did implode the 'Romans' stationed in Gaul, Germania and Syria had more in common with the native people than Rome itself. The empire had power centralised if they just spread it out a bit more things would have been better.

Constantine the Great because I'm a good Christian

Also Basil the Bulgar Slayer if we're counting Byzantine Emperors. It was also pretty based of Constantine XI to tell the Turks to fuck off even though they offered to let him continue ruling what was left of the empire in exchange for Constantinople.

The one with the face.

The empire reached critical mass, it would have fallen regardless. By the time it did implode the 'Romans' stationed in Gaul, Germania and Syria had more in common with the native people than Rome itself. The empire had power centralised if they just spread it out a bit more things would have been better.

There were way too many factors with Rome falling than just one thing, but yeah. Political instability, lack of funds to maintain an army over such a vast territory, the Goths and how the romans fucked that up when they were migrating, and a whole list of other things.

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