Most people know at least a few key facts about Julius Caesar and his infamous assassination on the Ides of March. But as the Roman Republic crumbled with him and theRoman Empirerose in its place, the rulers that came after him were no less controversial. Extravagance, executions, and extrem...
Severus Alexander: The Emperor Who Faced Down Crisis and Attempted to Restore Order Severus Alexander, often overshadowed by the more flamboyant and controversial emperors who preceded him, was a ruler who ascended to the imperial throne at a time of profound crisis. His reign, while ultimately br...
or, as the was originally designated, Caius Octavius. This totle was intended to be hereditary in his family, but all the succeeding Caesars or emperors of Rome continued to adopt it long after they had ceased to be connected with the first...
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Augustus in 27 BCE to the Crisis of the Third Century in 284 CE) and thedominate(referring to the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and restoration of the Empire byDiocletianin 284 CE). The timeline of Roman emperors in order below highlights the greatest Roman emperors (and the ...
When the emperor went on campaign, the imperial guard went with him. The institution of the cohors praetoria had originally been that of a group of men acting as bodyguards to a general, but Augustus - most likely drawing on the experience of Julius Caesar's murder - created a large perso...
According toSuetonius, Nero's parting words, as the empire fell into a state of civil war that would eventually become known as theYear of the Four Emperors, were "What a great artist dies in me" (qualis artifex pereo). Did you know... ...
The Rise of Emperors series charts the childhood, the rise, the rift, the struggle and the war between the later Roman emperors Constantine and Maxentius at the end of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th century. Many of you will already have read book one, but here is a run-down for anyone...
In order to have stability it had become essential to protect the life of the emperor and so Diocletian drew up a new system of government whereby two emperors called “Augusti” would have two commanders under them called “Caesars”. If one emperor were to die the Caesar under him would...
As we shall see further down, these 503 years were not a simple, straightforward period of one emperor neatly following on from his predecessor. At some times there were two or even four emperors in power at the same time, and the Empire was also divided into two when it was deemed too...