Emperor Baracus Commodeus Zero
Posted on 08/31/2014 7:05:07 AM PDT by grumpygresh
In the West, Imperial Rome begins in 27BC with the reign of Augustus and ends in 476 with Romulus Augustulus. Throughout this period, we can find good, mediocre and horrible rulers. America has often been compared to Rome, and today, like Rome, we see the transformation of our country from a republic to something closer to a dictatorship or autocracy. I know that many Freepers are Roman history bufffs, so we should come up with a pretty convincing consensus view.
Emperor Baracus Commodeus Zero
Augustus Honorus (a.k.a “Augustulus” meaning little penis). Augustulus was the last Roman emperor. The Ostrogothic king Gaeseric paid him a bribe to abdicate without naming a successor.
Watched originally as a mini-series installment of "Masterpiece Theater," back in the late '70's. Worth every penny.
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Nero was
The emperor ,the palace was his home.
But he liked to play with matches and so the fire burned.
Nero burned Rome down to ashes, and fiddled while
It burned.
My choice is a tanned emperor: Haile Selassie
I saw it also. It encouraged me to read I, CLAUDIUS, a great book. I wish I could find a good copy of it and CLAUDIUS THE GOD which I have not read.
I enjoyed the diddys the guards sang when Tiberius lost his Legions under Varius.
I’ve read Tacitus’ histories and find politics to be just as brutal then as now. The only difference is the disgraced Senators today do not go home and open a vein.
“Varus, Varus, General Varus, give me my three Eagles back!”
He is still in his Julian phase right now.
but he is Near-0
“I wish I could find a good copy of it and CLAUDIUS THE GOD which I have not read.”
Found it for you here : http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?browse=0&keyword=CLAUDIUS+THE+GOD&mtype=B&hs.x=31&hs.y=27
I use Alibris all the time and been very happy with them.
You are basically correct. Here's an interesting read on the subject:
It's long and it's not PC but it's worth a look if for no other reason to try to pick it apart.
I don’t know, who was the gayest emperor?
In this order:
Julian the Apostate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(emperor)
Nero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero
Caligula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
He will end as another Caligula, but it won’t be until the very end of his reign.
I vote for Elagabalus.
It's interesting to note how Elagabalus finally ended up:
....members of the Praetorian Guard attacked Elagabalus and his mother:
So he made an attempt to flee, and would have got away somewhere by being placed in a chest, had he not been discovered and slain, at the age of 18. His mother, who embraced him and clung tightly to him, perished with him; their heads were cut off and their bodies, after being stripped naked, were first dragged all over the city, then the mother's body was cast aside somewhere or other while his was thrown into the [Tiber].
Following his assassination, many associates of Elagabalus were killed or deposed, including his lover Hierocles. His religious edicts were reversed and the stone of Elagabal was sent back to Emesa. Women were again barred from attending meetings of the Senate. The practice of damnatio memoriae—erasing from the public record a disgraced personage formerly of note—was systematically applied in his case.
-Wikipedia
Libius Severus.
ditto.
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