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23 Sep 2009, 3:20 am

Gaius Julius Caesar.



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23 Sep 2009, 4:51 am

caesar wasn't an emperor

I Augustus



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23 Sep 2009, 5:10 am

stuff wrote:
caesar wasn't an emperor

I Augustus


Augustus was also called Gaius Julius Caesar (after the original), I believe, so they're one and the same. Darn confusing Romans. This could become even more confusing if it gets to the later emperors when there's several at the same time!

(edit) I think his name is probably best rendered in English as Happy guy-like-Caesar Julian the August. Maybe.

Which takes us to Tiberius.


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23 Sep 2009, 6:07 am

Ambivalence wrote:
stuff wrote:
caesar wasn't an emperor

I Augustus


Augustus was also called Gaius Julius Caesar (after the original), I believe, so they're one and the same. Darn confusing Romans. This could become even more confusing if it gets to the later emperors when there's several at the same time!

(edit) I think his name is probably best rendered in English as Happy guy-like-Caesar Julian the August. Maybe.

Which takes us to Tiberius.

Never heard of that Augustus would have been called Gaius Julius. (Would be rather pointless, since he alreday had two names.)
Ceasar became the roman title for emperor.


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23 Sep 2009, 8:21 am

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According to Wikipedia, the Roman Emperors morphed into the Byzantines and the whole shebang ended in 1502, just in time for Henry VIII, who had absolutely nothing to do with Rome. (pun intended!!).


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23 Sep 2009, 11:00 am

Being a Dictator Perpetuus is practically equivalent to being an Imperator, anyhow...



Next is Caligula.



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23 Sep 2009, 4:00 pm

Wasn't Augustus originally called Octavian?

After Caligula came Clau...Clau....C..C....Claudius....(Just had to stammer that one :P )


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23 Sep 2009, 4:16 pm

After Claudius was poisoned to death, Nero became the emperor.

Such a lovely family, those Roman rulers poisoning each other like that. However, none could quite top Caligula... what a character. Though I have to admit, horses could make good senators compared to some of the ones we've had... :lol:



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23 Sep 2009, 4:51 pm

Then came "The Year of The Four Emperors":
Galba,Otho,Vitellius, and Vespasian


Cyberman wrote:
After Claudius was poisoned to death, Nero became the emperor.

Such a lovely family, those Roman rulers poisoning each other like that. However, none could quite top Caligula... what a character. Though I have to admit, horses could make good senators compared to some of the ones we've had... :lol:


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I, Claudius, the PBS miniseries was staged to look like a soap opera for a reason...


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24 Sep 2009, 1:17 am

Titus



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24 Sep 2009, 3:39 pm

Domitian

Around this time John The Apostle (and last surviving disciple of the original 12) was exiled to the Isle of Patmos off the coast of
what was then called Asia but is now Turkey.


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