He was never officially emperor. He could be considered Emperor Zero. Zero in the sense he was emperor in all but name but is not technically the first. Still one of the greatest Romans. Just not an emperor.
Everyone should own a copy of Meditations.
Emperor Severus steered the ship very well, though cruely, until he randomly died in Britain. Then his descendants went from murderous, to absolutely insane, to an incompetent puppet.
The short years of Elagabalus is one of the most raunchy and insane pieces of history Iâve read
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Problem with him is favoring the soldiers above all else and increasing their pay. His actions contributed to the Crisis.
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Very true, but with no serious conquests happening anytime soon, Soldiers be soldiers and tended to be disloyal the further away they were from Rome.
It made sense to increase their pay. Its his successors who debased the currency to absolute shit who absolutely fucked it.
;-; till my boy Aurelius came
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diocletian said âmehâ and went back to tending his vegetables i think thatâs cool as fuck
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They even asked him to return to power when his successors began civil warring. He just said ânoâŚâ and returned to his cabbage farm
Based individual
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Julius Caeser, duh.
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This is Propaganda,
napoleonheads stay WINNING
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It takes a great man to voluntarily let go of absolute power. He was a rare one.
Shame they killed his wife and daughterâŚ
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Damn shame. Undeserved and abhorrent. Thankfully the perpetrators died horribly.
He was the best leader of France but not an Emperor of the Romans.
He was one of the best Romans but sadly never held the office.
I disagree. A model based upon Hadrian would have been better.
Elagalabus is a case study in why you do not give 16 year olds absolute power. Nero was tempered by his advisors.
If a title is necessary then one does not truly possess power. Even the âFirst Imperatorâ inherited his position and faced hilariously weaker adversaries during the âbitch-slapping of Cleopatraâ. I doubt any would have been able to do what Julius did - however I do acknowledge âcreatingâ an Empire is a different challenge than âmaintainingâ an Empire
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To be fair though Hadrian micromanaged the fuck out of the Empire and was barely ever in Rome. Im 90% sure he had access to Microsoft Excel.
Rare is a leader capable of managing the bullshit that was Rome so effectively.
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Very true. I would make Julius Caesar Emperor Zero. He laid the ground work for what would be the Empire. Augustus would not have achieved as much if Marcus Agrippa was not his right hand man.
True, his freeman had to chisel the Excel in stone. The problem with Septimius was and I do give him this, he was not established like Hadrian and did not have as much political capital as Augustus. I understand a new dynasty has to prove it self. It would have been better to pass on better values to his children. They pale in comparison to him. Actually the remainder of the Severan Dynasty pales in comparison to Septimius.
theodosius I and alexander I
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