"good" emperors just elitist globohomos approved of by the Senate?
Were all the "bad" Roman emperors just good populists and the
Oliver Turner
Bentley Reyes
The "good emperors" were considered good because they reigned over a time of internal peace and quality civic administration.
Matthew Hernandez
Probably. Going a bit further back, this was definitely true in Athens. Take Cleon vs. Pericles, for example. Pericles was an oligarch-connected traitor who literally married a foreign whore and had social and political connections with Spartans, embezzlers, and other filth while he led the "war effort" against Sparta during the Peloponnesian War. His contribution consisted of refusing to directly engage the Spartans while constantly making concessions to them and demonizing the ones who wanted to fight them, like Cleon.
But when Pericles died to the Spartan-caused plague and Cleon was elected to fight them, Cleon scored a great victory over the Spartans and captured almost 10% of their entire (elite) population in one battle, proving not only that the Athenians were capable of resistance but that Spartan military might was overstated and Pericles was a traitor. Cleon was the Trump of his day, and he is remembered by "historians" much as Trump is, whereas the traitor Pericles is exalted.
I doubt it was any different in Rome. Nero is a good example.
Gavin Jenkins
They all had their faults. They were mortal men, after all. Caesar was a brilliant commander and battlefield tactician and he had a natural genius for public relations. But he was also vain and self-indulgent. Nero and Caligula have reputations for being crazy and ruthless but a lot of that is just hype and storytelling. The only emperor who had no redeeming qualities was Constantine. He murdered his own son, sold Rome out to the jews, and paved the way for the empire's collapse.
Kayden Martin
Fuck Augustus for letting the kikes into Rome. We are still suffering from that mistake today.
Sebastian Long
It depends on the case. Gaius, for example, the two main sources are Philo and Josephus, both Jews. Gaius had disputes with the Jews and Philo met him and personally hated him. So no surprise that he's portrayed as bad.
Lincoln Peterson
Why do you post the first half of the post in the subject field
Austin Lewis
Who knows the truth of any of this. You can see how easily the truth gets now so who know what happend 2000 years ago. Caligula could have been a great guy. I'm pretty sure, but I could be misremebering, that most of what we know about him was written but a guy who wasn't alive at the same time, who was trying to gain favor with the new dynasty, who got most of his information from another guy known for being a salacious writer. It's probably similar for most of them.
John Carter
No, the bad emperors were incompetent, corrupt demagogues who caused civil wars. Think about how much worse if would be if Hunter Biden was president instead of Joe Biden.
Liam Flores
Nah, some were just mental cunts. Caracalla for example who when the citizens of Alexandria made a play mocking him for murdering his brother in front of his mother, ordered his legions to sack the city and kill anyone they could find. A city of the empire.
Domition was pretty cool desu but the senate hated him and that’s why he’s always ranked amongst the worst emperors.