This infographic shows the relationship between currency debasement and the assassination of Roman EmperorsJeff Desjardins
We therefore ask the question, what were the shocks that caused assassinations of Roman emperors. The Roman Empire, which lasted from 27 BC to 476 AD, had a total of eighty-two emperors.1 It therefore provides a rich historical laboratory from which to draw inferences. Moreover, assassination...
Commodus exhibited little interest in government affairs, unlike the previous emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who became his chamberlain, was the first in a succession of favorites he left in charge of running the state at this po...
“He was a cunning, ruthless politician who knew how to play both sides,” Barry Strauss, author of Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine, says of Octavian.This seven-hour miniseries explores the foundations of the greatest empires of all time and the incredible stories of ...
10. The Might of Julius Caesar When Gaius Julius Caesar took on the role of general in the Roman Republic army, he came across as a man of many talents. From his early days of being part of the First Triumvirate along with Pompey and Crassus, to becoming a dictator after defeating the...
People know of the great, and famous rulers of Rome, but little do they know there are many more. 82 years after the death of Augustus, Rome didn’t have a very happy story to tell. It was a story of good, bad, and terrible emperors. Two of the worst emperors were Caligula, and...
dictatorship, and voraciousness. These powerful aristocrats were emperors, sat on the top of Rome’s social order, but many of these emperors abused their status and ability. Roman emperors’ history was all mixed ingredients of love, assassination, vengeance, terror, voracity, jealousy, and haug...
Why were Roman emperors called 'caesar'? Why was the death of Tiberius Gracchus important? Why was Giuseppe Mazzini exiled? Why did Sulla become dictator? Why was Georges Danton executed? Why was William McKinley assassinated? Why did Caesar form the First Triumvirate?
I am Antony, Caesar’s beloved friend and the person who admired him the most. I believed Caesar’s assassination was not justified. The reason why Caesar was killed did not seem fair. He was accused of being ambitious and a Tyrant and thus my friend was murdered. Ambition would lead Cae...
Admiration of the great Macedonian was not unusual among Roman emperors, but, in the case of Caracalla, Alexander became an obsession that proved to be ludicrous and grotesque. He adopted clothing, weapons, behaviour, travel routes, portraits, perhaps even an alleged plan to conquer the Parthian...