How Every Roman Emperor Died (Ranked by Stupidity)
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How Every Roman Emperor Died (Ranked by Stupidity)
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Crudely Explained
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Fourteen Roman emperors, from the one who died peacefully in bed to the one who lost two-thirds of his army because he would not wait a few days. Ranked from least to most avoidable.
0:00 Augustus (14 AD)
1:12 Carus (283 AD)
2:12 Jovian (364 AD)
3:16 Claudius (54 AD)
4:43 Galba (69 AD)
5:46 Caligula (41 AD)
6:52 Pertinax (193 AD)
8:00 Didius Julianus (193 AD)
9:38 Commodus (192 AD)
10:54 Aurelian (275 AD)
12:02 Caracalla (217 AD)
13:08 Valentinian I (375 AD)
14:01 Valerian (260 AD)
15:25 Valens (378 AD)
16:57 Why being emperor was so dangerous
Sources:
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Cassius Dio, Roman History
Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae (books 25, 30, 31)
Historia Augusta
Tacitus, Annals and Histories
Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors
Saleh, J. H. (2019), Statistical reliability analysis for a most dangerous occupation: Roman emperor, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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