Always important to remember the Empire lasted to 1453 based at New Rome, Constantinople after the fall of old Rome. As John Julius Norwich notes, for the later emperors in the East in his "Byzantium"...A few were great, a few viciously evil, a few spectacularly weak and unsuitable...Most were decent men, concerned with doing their best for the empire and its people. And the last, Constantine XI, died bravely fighting for the city he loved against near hopeless odds.
Caligula also did "strange things" to go against the Senate, as we all know that period was harsh between emperors and Senate. He provoked them...a lot.
However i would like to end with a quote from Augustus:
"I found a city of bricks, I give it back of marble"
@Strefanasha There is no such reality of "evil" or "good", there just "is". Rome was above being an empire, it was something more. Rome was an idea and a force, it drove Western Civilization to the peak of the universe.
I like the music. It's lyrics seem appropriate. :) Interesting that most ruled for some time. It must have been strange when a new ruler was put in office. Waiting to see how they felt about religion, money matters, military matters, if they were balanced. I can't imagine them holding life and death over anyone they wanted and who could, at a whim, kill someone that displeased them. Also to be a new leader over all the military. Usually the military were loyal to their generals. Thanks!
Augustus was rather mean apparently but was no doubt a genius for what he was able to do to the empire, I thought it was Claudius after Augustus but it looks like it was Tiberius. I think Tiberius was good and bad. Calligula was well he was rather insane and Claudius was probably the most stable out of the Claudio Julian dynasty and Nero has to surely be the most fascinating of the CJ dynasty. He had good aspirations but his power got the better of him and he went nuts.
@heathey2 Augustus was the best emperor rome had because for example, the praetorian guard gave him complete loyalty and people of the empire love him to. Tiberius was good emperor in his youth but then became kina psycho and claudus was already eldery age when he became and was good ruler. As for caligula and nero, both we quite retarted i guess.
Tiberius "good emperor in his youth" sounds funny, because Tiberius was 55 years old when he came to power. ;-) Claudius was even younger, he was 50 years old at the time of his proclamation to emperor.
1.) Choose a soundtrack from The Lion King is very idiotic and childish.
2.) Stop using the actors from Rome and making a depiction of them as Emperors thinking you could fool anyone. Rome is a very popular TV Series so your act of deceiving people fail miserably.
Mhhh... si salta da Caracalla direttamente a Costantino e poi nulla....non vengono citati grandi imperatori come Aureliano,Valeriano, Diocleziano,Teodosio e Valentiniano III
But it's a shame to forget Severus Alexander, the most beloved of all roman emperors. And if the criteria are Fame, in the roman sense, I have to tell you that Helvius Pertinax, Opellius Macrinus, Nerva, Lucius Verus… are more famous than Claudius Nero, Domitianus, Caius Caesar (Calígula), Commodus. And we cannot talk about Constantine I without talking about Licinius…
But it's a shame to forget Severus Alexander, the most beloved of all roman emperors. And if the criteria are Fame, in the roman sense, I have to tell you that Helvius Pertinax, Opellius Macrinus, Nerva, Lucius Verus… are more famous than Claudius Nero, Domitianus, Caius Caesar (Calígula), Commodus. And we cannot talk about Constantine I without talking about Licinius…
The Roman empire probably would've lasted longer if it wasn't for Xianity, they fuck and destroy everything in the name of a cosmic Jew because a penis monster told a rib-woman to eat fruit off a magical tree in an enchanted forest. Lmao
What about the EASTERN ROMAN Emperors? Justinian the Great, Heraclius, Basil I, Basil II Bulgaroctonos, Alexius I Comnenus, John II Comnenus, Manuel Comnenus, Michael VII Palaiologos and finally the last Emperor of the Romans, Constantine XI Palaiologos?
@byzantinecaesar YES! Do not forget the Byzantines! I must say I love the list, though I would add John Tzimiskes, Nikepherous II Phokas, and Vatatzes
Remember the murderous Pretorian guard that installed rulers as they wished, until they themselves were mercilessly hunted down and slain by their own generals, by that time Rome was no longer a powerhouse that it was, the peasants in turn began talking Italian and Latin was considered obsolete-hence the end of Rome and it's empire.
@calanero: His reign started out well as he didn't initially care to bother actually running things. He left the actual daily functions of state to his stoic tutor, Seneca. He ran things well, but as Nero came to see the "fun" he could have w/ his power, he began to abuse his position, to squander money, & disrupt. This is why the 666 applies to Nero, it is taken from King Solomon. He started out well but was corrupted by power. Nero's reign, even if not actually him, starts out well.
I like How Trajan is depicted by Julius Caesar in his triumhial clothing, with the red face paint depicting Jupiter Optimus Maximus, but of course there is no movie depicting Trajan.
Maybe they were Serbs so they are skipped,maybe on purpose,and Konstantin The Great <--- this here is not his last name.Does anyone knows Konstantins last name,plz come farward,or Aleksandar The Great,THNX.
@srbindokraja Constantine's full name was IMPERATOR CAESAR FLAVIVS CONSTANTINVS PIVS FELIX INVICTVS AVGVSTVS; now that's a mouthfull! During Alexander's time they really didn't use last names (Alexander the Great or Alexander III of Macedon was clear enough!), but he was part of the Macedonian Argead Dynasty.
Great Vid - I wondered though, with all the video references out there for the Julio-Claudian line, why you didn't snatch some more screen shots - Malcolm McDowell or John Hurt, for Caligula, Derek Jacobi for Claudius. But still well done. I am enjoying your vids :)
Why are you taking characters who is not even playing the persons you are saying that they are. Try to learn some history first before you are making such a pile of B******T!!!!
Hey, I wonder if you skipped the other three emperors after Nero and before Vespasianus (Galba, Otho, Vitellus) by accident or intentionally? By the way, nice vid!
This was very nicely done. Especially the music cresendo and the torches ablaze. Some comments about clips and resemblances are irrevelant. I Just wanted you to know that "SOME" of us get it. (wink, wink) Great work.
[Looks like several films - "Gladiator" (for the clips of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus), and also the BBC (?) series about a few selected emperors, and some other films I didn't recognise.]
The first 200 years of the empire from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius were very good, together with Constantine, the emperors from theret till Rome's fall 100 years later were nothing of importance, There were in the eastern roman empire after that another 11 emperors named "Constantine" among others, the Constantine XI being the last that died with his empire.Being the last roman empire after almost 1500 years of empire from 14 BCuntil 1453 AC(1467 years ofempire).
Our history teacher showed this to us in school, he provided the source properly! :)
A lot of my classmates are very interested with the Roman emperors, including me. :) And I almost jumped up from my seat when I saw Thomas Sangster as Romulus Augustulus. :D
I would not say Gallienus was a great emperor. Historians have mostly seen him negative. He was not the man the empire needed in that crisis and so he could not prevent the fragmentation of the empire. In his reign the Gallic Empire of Postumus was formed and in the east the empire of palmyra became indepedent. Aurelian reunited the roman world later then.
Chris Scarre in his book "Chronicle of the Roman Emperors" has nothing but praise for Gallienus, saying that much of his reputation was sullied by contemporary historians because Gallienus mistrusted the senatorial class.Scarre describes Gallienus as "an embattled emperor struggling valiantly to maintain his position in a shattered empire". Historian Eamon Duffy in "History of the Popes" calls Gallienus "a ruler of great courage and fortitude who saved the empire from the brink of destruction".
Yes, there are many modern sympathies for this emperor. But that cannot hide that for centuries Gallienus was seen as mainly incapable and that the late roman historians and authors described him in a negative way. The reason is the result of his gouvernement: Gaul lost, Syria lost, the senate against him, state in crisis...
There had always been rebellions and usurpations, but if there were many of them during the reign of an emperor that meant that this emperor was weak or unpopular like Maximinus Thrax for example.
Gallienus' rule was pretty weak, but the situation was pretty bad when he came into power and I think he did as best as he could. I don't think his reign was particularly weaker than most 3rd century emperors. Had he been emperor a century earlier history would have treated him more kindly.
Having said that though, I don't think he was important enough to been in the video either. Personally I'd have put in Aurelian, Diocletian and Theodosius too. Good to see Julian in there as well, btw.
@Princepsmaximus Yes. Great leaders solve problems before others even realize there is a problem at all. That way, things don't get out of hand and everything is manageable.
I think you should've mentioned that Marcus Aurelius was a co-emperor with Verus. Even though Marcus Aurelius obviously had the greater authority in the partnership, Verus still had influence.
What happened between the time of Constantine and Julian and between Julian and Romulus? A lot of time...Also between Caracalus and Constantine seems to be a lot of time as well.
That are Clips from only a hand of movies. In 2:07 thats Caesar from the serial ROM, not Traian. In 1:17, thats Cicero, also from ROM, 2:14 is Augustus (or Octavius) from ROM, Marc Aurel and Commodus are from Gladiator (they're right), 2:35 is Quintus, the praetorian commander (also from Gladiator), Constantine is from his own movie, also Romulus Augustulus (the last Legion). You see, that are only a few films, there aren't enough for all emperors ;)
Constantine was not great, he was an evil tyrant that destroyed Rome. Nero tried to save Rome, but the Senate hated him(He was the son of Caligula, who the Senate assassinated), and thwarted him.
Nero was Caligula's nephew, not his son. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippinilla of the Julii were Nero's parents. The Emperor Claudius was his stepfather.
@fvitchard well yes nero was actually never meant to rule Rome but Claudius wife convinced him to name Nero as his successor, so that she could rule with nero, but nero ended up killing her.
Galleinus can hardly be blamed for the calamaties of his realm, because he was the victim of a "perfect storm" of simultaneous barbarian invasions, invasion by Persia, and military revolts.
Much of the "bad press" that Gallienus gets comes from the Historia Augusta--one of the few surviving histories from that time. It was written about 100 years after the events, and Chris Scarre describes the Historia Augusta as "unreliable and heavily embellished".
@DonVicente67 - My guess is that the last emperor was Romulus and Rome was founded by the twin Romulus. Can this be the reason? Why no Gaius Julius in the video?
@Princepsmaximus His mother was of Roman noble background, and his Father was of Punic (Carthaginian) or Libyan background, he was probably the first of Carthaginian blood to become so powerful since Hannibal.He waws the first of the strong military Emperors, and died in February 211 at Eboracum, modern York, in England.
he was from north africa, which at the time of his birth was a mixture of berber, greek and romans, so he was no an african in the sense that you are implying
Constantinus began to untie to the empire of the pagan traditions; he modified the legions and the military capacity; he strengthened to the Hellenism with the foundation of Constantinople; the Senate recognized with resignation his power; and he was loved by the christians and hated by the pagans. Nice video.
il più potente e più famoso romanzo Imperatori sono indicati, a partire dal mese di agosto Augustulus Romolo. Una breve panoramica su 500 anni di storia romana.
The famous Julius Caesar was the great uncle of Octvian, until he postumously adopted him as his son and principle hier. Rome did split for a time during the Triumvirate, until Octavian absorbed Lepidus and crushed Antonius. Got it?
Titus best achievement (the destruction of Jerusalem and solomons temple ) was also his biggest mistake ,because by banishing all the jews from judeah he just spread the plague of sionism all over the world.Had he just left them there their ethnic sense would have been forgotten after the centuries of Islamic occupation of the area that followed.
I will move to Israel, i have a better chance of getting a nice piece of land there(I think you take it free if you convince the palestian currently living in it to leave).
Why begin a film about Rome with 'Hollywood' African music? What a stupid concept - you would have been thown to the lions for that, and rightly so! The greatest Empire in the World and you play the music from "The Lion King" *sigh*..
This film wouldn't be about showing the actors who play these roles, no - the intention of this movie I believe is more based on giving a correct timeline, rather than showing clips from shows.
And I just want to say: bravo for this film, very entertaining.
The only thing that I'm missing in ths video is Gaius Julius Caesar - but not because I consider him to be an emperor, but because he created recreated the thought of a leader with monopoly on power, economics, culture and civil order.
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius (time span: 96AD-180AD)
The Julio-Claudian period was full of treachery, purges, and asassinations. Augustus was the only truly successful Julio-Claudian emperor. After him they only got worse.
There was suppsoed to be a comma after Hadrian. Rome had many bad emperors and way too much internal strife but it's success has to be measured by it's ability to survive.
Nerva wasn´t a good emperor. In fact his reign was nearly an anarchy. Because he was a weak ruler he had to execute the murderers of Domitian although they made possible that he came to power. And Trajan was responsible for the miltary catastrophy in the east, while Marcus Aurelius tolerated an incapable person - Lucius Verus - as second emperor and ignored that his son Commodus wasn´t an appropriate successor at all.
The Five Good emperors were considered the best as far as they treated the population in terms of humanity-not military successes or who they chose as successors.
They treated the population well, ok, but Nerva doesn´t deserve the honor to be added to be them. On the hand he reigned very short, just 16 months, on the other hand he didn´t solved the problems. That was the work of Trajan. And a human policy needs the background to be realized. And that was the peace and the prosperity within the empire. Before and after there was no possibility for humanitarian emperors.
What is funny is that the five best emperors were either pagan or stoics. Christian Emperors were as bad as some of the pagan emperors from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Good, the five best emperors, i think you mean Augustus, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, were pagan, but on the other hand Constantine and the other christian emperors didn´t want to change their policy because of their confession. There is a continuance from the emperors of the third century and those from the fourth.
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius were considered the best five emperors cited by political philosopher Machiavelli in the early 16th century. These emperors did not fear the population or the Senate like their predecessors or successors. They were deemed to have lived just lives and had good virtues.
And this is the irony of my original post. They were not christian. This really makes you think. I grew up catholic and Constantine is held up like he was some good person. Religion is just a backdrop in the end.
Interesting to see that Dante's 'Divine Comedy' placed Roman pagans of good virtue, i.e. Cato and Vergilius, in purgatory; just one step away from heaven.
It's a real shame that many of these emperors haven't been portrayed on film or TV. There's too much focus on the late Republic and the early Empire in popular culture, imo. I'd really like a movie or TV series on the Constantinian dynasty.
THat is what made the movie Gladiator so good. It dealt with the late pagan Rome. The Fall of the Roman Empire is another Marcus Aurelius period film that depicts Rome late in the pagan period. The Julian-Claudian dynasty is popular because of all the classic appearances, styles, and it was a much more treacherous (thus exciting) time.
the word: "emperor" is from the latin word imperator, which Gaius Julius Ceasar was declared.
Although he did never us the term "emperor", he still acted as one. you cannot formely call him an emperor, because noone in the antique did, but i agree with Princepsmaximus: he is the father of all emperors in rome.
Yes, "imperator" was a military, not a political title and Caesar was not the first imperator. But what has been new that was the durability of this title. The power of Caesar and Augustus was build on the strength of the legions.
Yes, but that doesn´t count as roman history itself. The Byzantine Empire is different from the Western Empire that fell down in 476. Their language was greek and Constantinople not Rome was their centre. Furthermore it didn´t have the enormous world power the united Roman Empire had.
The emperors like Charles the Great have seen themself as roman emperors as well. They said the empire continued from Augustus to the Holy Roman emperors. But it is consensus the ancient world ended between the fourth and seventh century. Alexios I. and Constantine XI. are not the same as Hadrian and Septimius Severus.
Well Napeoleon also considerd himself a a Roman emperor but he was not of Roman decent at all like some of the ones you mentioned.
The eastern roman empire was Rome"the term Byzantine Empire was invented by todays historians beacause of the capitals location the old city of Byzantium"it wasn't called that they were Rome,After the western capital Rome fell to the Vandals.
The new capital was Constantinople,the Roman empire didn't die then,it lived on in the east.
It´s the question wether you can call Caesar the first emperor or his adoptive son Augustus. Sueton begins his collection of emperor biographys with Caesar. But the principat is still a bit different from Caesar´s order. I would say you could call him the "father" of all emperors.
You have a point there.The diffrence is that during Julius Ceasars time Rome was a Republic and because of that his title cannot officicaly be Emperor.
Even though they do share complete conrol over the army and the state a Dictator and a Emperor.
where are Aurelian,Valerian, Dioclezian,Teodosius and Valentinian III?
You just jump from Caracalla to Constantine....
Kenshiroit 5 days ago
music really doesn't fit the video lol
SebAnders 3 months ago
Why you put dumb African style music to celebrate the great white ones? And also music is very gay just like you
mappingtheshit 5 months ago
@mappingtheshit
this music is from "the lion king" ^^ :D:D:D
Oesterreich1156 5 months ago
Always important to remember the Empire lasted to 1453 based at New Rome, Constantinople after the fall of old Rome. As John Julius Norwich notes, for the later emperors in the East in his "Byzantium"...A few were great, a few viciously evil, a few spectacularly weak and unsuitable...Most were decent men, concerned with doing their best for the empire and its people. And the last, Constantine XI, died bravely fighting for the city he loved against near hopeless odds.
regertz 7 months ago
you didn't mention aurelian
standook 8 months ago
Caligula also did "strange things" to go against the Senate, as we all know that period was harsh between emperors and Senate. He provoked them...a lot.
However i would like to end with a quote from Augustus:
"I found a city of bricks, I give it back of marble"
Caporacolo 8 months ago 3
I admired the romans once.
But no longer.
ALL empires are evil
Strefanasha 9 months ago
@Strefanasha
That is false if you think so. They have good sides and they have bad sides.
Princepsmaximus 9 months ago 8
@Strefanasha Rome was evil at the END of the empire.... Early Rome was awsome! before christianity and jews
mrtundra45 7 months ago
@Strefanasha There is no such reality of "evil" or "good", there just "is". Rome was above being an empire, it was something more. Rome was an idea and a force, it drove Western Civilization to the peak of the universe.
EpicTrollBeastMan 6 months ago
@Strefanasha fairly wrong i am sry to say the uk is an empire some what and the arent evil
ipodkrozen 6 months ago
I like the music. It's lyrics seem appropriate. :) Interesting that most ruled for some time. It must have been strange when a new ruler was put in office. Waiting to see how they felt about religion, money matters, military matters, if they were balanced. I can't imagine them holding life and death over anyone they wanted and who could, at a whim, kill someone that displeased them. Also to be a new leader over all the military. Usually the military were loyal to their generals. Thanks!
Songsmirth 10 months ago
Augustus was rather mean apparently but was no doubt a genius for what he was able to do to the empire, I thought it was Claudius after Augustus but it looks like it was Tiberius. I think Tiberius was good and bad. Calligula was well he was rather insane and Claudius was probably the most stable out of the Claudio Julian dynasty and Nero has to surely be the most fascinating of the CJ dynasty. He had good aspirations but his power got the better of him and he went nuts.
heathey2 11 months ago
@heathey2 Augustus was the best emperor rome had because for example, the praetorian guard gave him complete loyalty and people of the empire love him to. Tiberius was good emperor in his youth but then became kina psycho and claudus was already eldery age when he became and was good ruler. As for caligula and nero, both we quite retarted i guess.
Mindaugas7100 10 months ago
@Mindaugas7100
Tiberius "good emperor in his youth" sounds funny, because Tiberius was 55 years old when he came to power. ;-) Claudius was even younger, he was 50 years old at the time of his proclamation to emperor.
Princepsmaximus 9 months ago
i feel lik watching lion king hehe
mizuki3 1 year ago
at least have Derek Jacobi from I'Claudius as CLAUDIUS pls
gopsarah 1 year ago
the world would be so much different if Julian the apostate didnt die, such a great educated man but it seems he was unlucky
dimalex8 1 year ago
I agree the music choice is simply horrible. It does not give the video any credit.
The Lion king? it's just ridiculous.
b1ndrn65 1 year ago
You could have used the actors for Vespasian and Titus in Rise and Fall of an Empire.
AqworldsWiki 1 year ago
@AqworldsWiki the vespasian used in those episodes actually looked like the real one!
Acroniscopi 1 year ago
@Acroniscopi The Julius Caesar from HBO Rome is used as both Vespasian and Trajan.
AqworldsWiki 1 year ago
great work!
WlakyMaster 1 year ago
i view it more than 30times and it really good tnx for upload
nikecordovilla 1 year ago
1.) Choose a soundtrack from The Lion King is very idiotic and childish.
2.) Stop using the actors from Rome and making a depiction of them as Emperors thinking you could fool anyone. Rome is a very popular TV Series so your act of deceiving people fail miserably.
RoyalDog214 1 year ago
Mhhh... si salta da Caracalla direttamente a Costantino e poi nulla....non vengono citati grandi imperatori come Aureliano,Valeriano, Diocleziano,Teodosio e Valentiniano III
LarryScottBB 1 year ago
Respond to this video... very nice
megabruce15 1 year ago
Very good, I love the Romans! How is the song called?
SissiQueen08 1 year ago
@SissiQueen08
It´s "The Circle of Life" from "Lion King".
Princepsmaximus 1 year ago
@Princepsmaximus Of course, the english version. I did only knew the Dutch version.
SissiQueen08 1 year ago
@SissiQueen08 lol ure prob the only one on the planet who doesnt know the name of the song.
Acroniscopi 1 year ago
@Acroniscopi I knew only the Dutch version of it
SissiQueen08 1 year ago
@SissiQueen08
Well... nice video.
But it's a shame to forget Severus Alexander, the most beloved of all roman emperors. And if the criteria are Fame, in the roman sense, I have to tell you that Helvius Pertinax, Opellius Macrinus, Nerva, Lucius Verus… are more famous than Claudius Nero, Domitianus, Caius Caesar (Calígula), Commodus. And we cannot talk about Constantine I without talking about Licinius…
:-)
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@SissiQueen08
Well... nice video.
But it's a shame to forget Severus Alexander, the most beloved of all roman emperors. And if the criteria are Fame, in the roman sense, I have to tell you that Helvius Pertinax, Opellius Macrinus, Nerva, Lucius Verus… are more famous than Claudius Nero, Domitianus, Caius Caesar (Calígula), Commodus. And we cannot talk about Constantine I without talking about Licinius…
:-)
virgiliobrandao 1 year ago
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fuck this video
histatimaniples 1 year ago
NICe bUT WANT cOMpLTe lISt Of LIneS oF eMPerOr
nikecordovilla 1 year ago
@Amphion1000
well he at least posted a nice video , you thankless ungrateful fucktard!
ramboram03 1 year ago
The Roman empire probably would've lasted longer if it wasn't for Xianity, they fuck and destroy everything in the name of a cosmic Jew because a penis monster told a rib-woman to eat fruit off a magical tree in an enchanted forest. Lmao
Acage69 1 year ago
What about the EASTERN ROMAN Emperors? Justinian the Great, Heraclius, Basil I, Basil II Bulgaroctonos, Alexius I Comnenus, John II Comnenus, Manuel Comnenus, Michael VII Palaiologos and finally the last Emperor of the Romans, Constantine XI Palaiologos?
byzantinecaesar 1 year ago
@byzantinecaesar YES! Do not forget the Byzantines! I must say I love the list, though I would add John Tzimiskes, Nikepherous II Phokas, and Vatatzes
Trefsre 1 year ago
I LOL as soon as I heard the music.
WIDR101 1 year ago
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JoKeR2280 1 year ago
Remember the murderous Pretorian guard that installed rulers as they wished, until they themselves were mercilessly hunted down and slain by their own generals, by that time Rome was no longer a powerhouse that it was, the peasants in turn began talking Italian and Latin was considered obsolete-hence the end of Rome and it's empire.
asther113 1 year ago
thanks i like this compilations
tenorul 1 year ago
nero lasted a long time as emperor for a man who was hated so much
calanero 1 year ago
@calanero: His reign started out well as he didn't initially care to bother actually running things. He left the actual daily functions of state to his stoic tutor, Seneca. He ran things well, but as Nero came to see the "fun" he could have w/ his power, he began to abuse his position, to squander money, & disrupt. This is why the 666 applies to Nero, it is taken from King Solomon. He started out well but was corrupted by power. Nero's reign, even if not actually him, starts out well.
VictorLepanto 1 year ago
I like How Trajan is depicted by Julius Caesar in his triumhial clothing, with the red face paint depicting Jupiter Optimus Maximus, but of course there is no movie depicting Trajan.
imperatorcaesar100 1 year ago
the video has nice music, but it is not compatiable with this video. Rome is in southern europe, not in Sub-Saharran Africa.
imperatorcaesar100 1 year ago
I hope they bring back the tv series ROME on HBO. I think they should just fast forward through Tiberius & go straight to Nero or Caligula.
calanero 1 year ago
Maybe they were Serbs so they are skipped,maybe on purpose,and Konstantin The Great <--- this here is not his last name.Does anyone knows Konstantins last name,plz come farward,or Aleksandar The Great,THNX.
srbindokraja 1 year ago
@srbindokraja Constantine's full name was IMPERATOR CAESAR FLAVIVS CONSTANTINVS PIVS FELIX INVICTVS AVGVSTVS; now that's a mouthfull! During Alexander's time they really didn't use last names (Alexander the Great or Alexander III of Macedon was clear enough!), but he was part of the Macedonian Argead Dynasty.
Trefsre 1 year ago
Great Vid - I wondered though, with all the video references out there for the Julio-Claudian line, why you didn't snatch some more screen shots - Malcolm McDowell or John Hurt, for Caligula, Derek Jacobi for Claudius. But still well done. I am enjoying your vids :)
mascutt 1 year ago
there are a lot of emperors missing
redbayly 1 year ago
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Why are you taking characters who is not even playing the persons you are saying that they are. Try to learn some history first before you are making such a pile of B******T!!!!
MrRosengaard 1 year ago
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MrRosengaard 1 year ago
I lol'd at the beginning.
I don't use "lol" unless I mean it -- I literally laughed out loud.
augustuslxiii 2 years ago
you miss diocletian
xbouxix 2 years ago 2
You forgot Theodosius I the Great
GruberLord 2 years ago
The only one smart enough to bring the empires together again.
filippioss 1 year ago
U forgot some.
Strategos300 2 years ago 2
Hey, I wonder if you skipped the other three emperors after Nero and before Vespasianus (Galba, Otho, Vitellus) by accident or intentionally? By the way, nice vid!
DarkerMoonshadow 2 years ago
whats with the lion king music makes this shit look stupid
jaxxcapone 2 years ago
This was very nicely done. Especially the music cresendo and the torches ablaze. Some comments about clips and resemblances are irrevelant. I Just wanted you to know that "SOME" of us get it. (wink, wink) Great work.
peachfuzz1204 2 years ago
whts the focus on constatine all about!!!.;iz this some christian shit!!!...constatine was no roman!!
TheMontybach 2 years ago
...and Cicero as Claudius...
19Xemnas19 2 years ago
can you make a viedeo about all rome greatest general such as Scipio, Pompey, Agrippa, Stilicon and many many more...
they built the empire
xbouxix 2 years ago
Marcus Aurelius of "Gladiator" bore absolutely no resemblance to the historical "Marcus",nor did "Commodus"
divustitus 2 years ago
your film shows mark anthony as titus and julius caesar as vespasian
Track14 2 years ago
what is the name of the film did u get this clips?
MrLogior 2 years ago
[Looks like several films - "Gladiator" (for the clips of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus), and also the BBC (?) series about a few selected emperors, and some other films I didn't recognise.]
CinnAlla 2 years ago
The first 200 years of the empire from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius were very good, together with Constantine, the emperors from theret till Rome's fall 100 years later were nothing of importance, There were in the eastern roman empire after that another 11 emperors named "Constantine" among others, the Constantine XI being the last that died with his empire.Being the last roman empire after almost 1500 years of empire from 14 BCuntil 1453 AC(1467 years ofempire).
jcorbellini 2 years ago
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jcorbellini 2 years ago
what about Nerva ?
xbouxix 2 years ago
He´s not really important (ruled just for sixteen months).
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
he choose Trajan as heir
was it is only great achievement ?
xbouxix 2 years ago
As emperor he was weak. He could not keep the murderers of Domitian from being executed although they were responsible that he could become ruler.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
That's probably because Nerva had nothing to do with the murder and was appointed by the Senate.
TWKang 2 years ago
Our history teacher showed this to us in school, he provided the source properly! :)
A lot of my classmates are very interested with the Roman emperors, including me. :) And I almost jumped up from my seat when I saw Thomas Sangster as Romulus Augustulus. :D
slytherin310 2 years ago
You left out two of the truly great Emperors:
Gallienus (253-268) who heroically and valiantly held the empire together when it seemed certain that it would come crashing to the ground.
Aurelian (270-275) who built on the work of Gallienus and restored the empire after it had been split into thirds.
zooeyhall 2 years ago
I would not say Gallienus was a great emperor. Historians have mostly seen him negative. He was not the man the empire needed in that crisis and so he could not prevent the fragmentation of the empire. In his reign the Gallic Empire of Postumus was formed and in the east the empire of palmyra became indepedent. Aurelian reunited the roman world later then.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Chris Scarre in his book "Chronicle of the Roman Emperors" has nothing but praise for Gallienus, saying that much of his reputation was sullied by contemporary historians because Gallienus mistrusted the senatorial class.Scarre describes Gallienus as "an embattled emperor struggling valiantly to maintain his position in a shattered empire". Historian Eamon Duffy in "History of the Popes" calls Gallienus "a ruler of great courage and fortitude who saved the empire from the brink of destruction".
zooeyhall 2 years ago
Yes, there are many modern sympathies for this emperor. But that cannot hide that for centuries Gallienus was seen as mainly incapable and that the late roman historians and authors described him in a negative way. The reason is the result of his gouvernement: Gaul lost, Syria lost, the senate against him, state in crisis...
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
But didn't discontent with the central government in the provinces had been building up for some time before Gallienus' ascension anyway?
TWKang 2 years ago
Bleargh, I dunno why my grammar was so bad here. -.-
TWKang 2 years ago
There had always been rebellions and usurpations, but if there were many of them during the reign of an emperor that meant that this emperor was weak or unpopular like Maximinus Thrax for example.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Gallienus' rule was pretty weak, but the situation was pretty bad when he came into power and I think he did as best as he could. I don't think his reign was particularly weaker than most 3rd century emperors. Had he been emperor a century earlier history would have treated him more kindly.
Having said that though, I don't think he was important enough to been in the video either. Personally I'd have put in Aurelian, Diocletian and Theodosius too. Good to see Julian in there as well, btw.
TWKang 2 years ago
@Princepsmaximus or Nero, How basically turned downtown Rome into his own places. Not to mention he bleed the empire to bankruptcy.
RomanFighter1 1 year ago
@Princepsmaximus Yes. Great leaders solve problems before others even realize there is a problem at all. That way, things don't get out of hand and everything is manageable.
I think you should've mentioned that Marcus Aurelius was a co-emperor with Verus. Even though Marcus Aurelius obviously had the greater authority in the partnership, Verus still had influence.
manmythlegend12 1 year ago
btw. romulus augustulus is played by actor who played young adolf hitler in Rise of evil
DareiosXerxes 2 years ago
What happened between the time of Constantine and Julian and between Julian and Romulus? A lot of time...Also between Caracalus and Constantine seems to be a lot of time as well.
10Tuxedo 2 years ago
Where did you find all those clips?
Wana see some true roman movies, that isent bout how great that fake person jesus is.
Something that hasent have anything too do with religion.
BloodCold666 2 years ago
That are Clips from only a hand of movies. In 2:07 thats Caesar from the serial ROM, not Traian. In 1:17, thats Cicero, also from ROM, 2:14 is Augustus (or Octavius) from ROM, Marc Aurel and Commodus are from Gladiator (they're right), 2:35 is Quintus, the praetorian commander (also from Gladiator), Constantine is from his own movie, also Romulus Augustulus (the last Legion). You see, that are only a few films, there aren't enough for all emperors ;)
Arminius09 2 years ago
Constantine was not great, he was an evil tyrant that destroyed Rome. Nero tried to save Rome, but the Senate hated him(He was the son of Caligula, who the Senate assassinated), and thwarted him.
PaulieRomanov 2 years ago
Nero was Caligula's nephew, not his son. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippinilla of the Julii were Nero's parents. The Emperor Claudius was his stepfather.
fvitchard 2 years ago 8
@fvitchard well yes nero was actually never meant to rule Rome but Claudius wife convinced him to name Nero as his successor, so that she could rule with nero, but nero ended up killing her.
RomanFighter1 1 year ago
@fvitchard claudius wa also his mum's uncle.although he married her.
michael0ish 1 year ago
how did Constantine destroyed rome, it is because of him roman lasted an exter 1100 years.
Alucardthedeadone 2 years ago
Galleinus can hardly be blamed for the calamaties of his realm, because he was the victim of a "perfect storm" of simultaneous barbarian invasions, invasion by Persia, and military revolts.
Much of the "bad press" that Gallienus gets comes from the Historia Augusta--one of the few surviving histories from that time. It was written about 100 years after the events, and Chris Scarre describes the Historia Augusta as "unreliable and heavily embellished".
zooeyhall 2 years ago
Who did you use for Emperor Caracalla?
fvitchard 2 years ago
Horrible choice of music. Whats with the Simba and Mufasa music? Not to diss the lion king, I own it. The music just doesn't fit with Roman Emperors.
DonVicente67 2 years ago 20
@DonVicente67 - My guess is that the last emperor was Romulus and Rome was founded by the twin Romulus. Can this be the reason? Why no Gaius Julius in the video?
DBHuntington 1 year ago
@DonVicente67
You're right! The music is not appropriate.... but, we but must have in mind that, v.g., Septimius Severus was an African. Take care
virgiliobrandao 1 year ago
@virgiliobrandao
To be exact, he was a northern african, probably a berber.
Princepsmaximus 1 year ago
@Princepsmaximus His mother was of Roman noble background, and his Father was of Punic (Carthaginian) or Libyan background, he was probably the first of Carthaginian blood to become so powerful since Hannibal.He waws the first of the strong military Emperors, and died in February 211 at Eboracum, modern York, in England.
DSVOP 1 year ago
@virgiliobrandao
he was from north africa, which at the time of his birth was a mixture of berber, greek and romans, so he was no an african in the sense that you are implying
VigisKane 10 months ago
LOL The Lion King LMAO !!
OBZRV82 2 years ago
theres all bunch of emperors missing the list is not complete
URANUS3024 2 years ago
no here ar show all powerful emperors and the most famous
betawarior 2 years ago
galerius famous powerful destroyed the persians
URANUS3024 2 years ago
Constantinus began to untie to the empire of the pagan traditions; he modified the legions and the military capacity; he strengthened to the Hellenism with the foundation of Constantinople; the Senate recognized with resignation his power; and he was loved by the christians and hated by the pagans. Nice video.
MarcusAureliusVerus 2 years ago
il più potente e più famoso romanzo Imperatori sono indicati, a partire dal mese di agosto Augustulus Romolo. Una breve panoramica su 500 anni di storia romana.
betawarior 2 years ago
What's with the African music? Not very appropriate for the great Romans.
kruelgor 2 years ago 2
thats only for the easten roman empire
jeppecaesar 2 years ago
Good video, I just have a question
Where did you get all the clips?
clintjackson73052 2 years ago
Ancient Rome - Rise and Fall of an Empire and HBO - Rome.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
augustus is not the son of ceasar .
ceasar was the brother of augustus grandmother
ptitchemla 2 years ago
Isn't Augustus son of Julius ceasar?
And didn't the Roman Empire split during Augustus's reign?
Kirillarmas11 2 years ago
The famous Julius Caesar was the great uncle of Octvian, until he postumously adopted him as his son and principle hier. Rome did split for a time during the Triumvirate, until Octavian absorbed Lepidus and crushed Antonius. Got it?
vasp99 2 years ago 2
you should have stoped to Constantine Paleologos, the last emperor of the eastern roman empire.
nmoridis 2 years ago
Titus best achievement (the destruction of Jerusalem and solomons temple ) was also his biggest mistake ,because by banishing all the jews from judeah he just spread the plague of sionism all over the world.Had he just left them there their ethnic sense would have been forgotten after the centuries of Islamic occupation of the area that followed.
Giangosdrakos 2 years ago
Wash your mind out with soap, hater. Or move to Iran.
vasp99 2 years ago
I will move to Israel, i have a better chance of getting a nice piece of land there(I think you take it free if you convince the palestian currently living in it to leave).
Giangosdrakos 2 years ago
"I think you take it free if you convince the palestian currently living in it to leave"
- good luck to you convincing them
plonsdrums 2 years ago
you're showing the same guys as different emperors... lol. what the hell is this.
luismelhernandez1974 2 years ago
my little sis's gonna b happy now
obituaryrulez 2 years ago
Septimius severus was a black man, you stupid primitive devils
HISTORYOFTHE12 2 years ago
He wasn´t black. He came from a family of roman settlers. His skin might have been a bit darker like the Arabians have, but never black.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Your a damn clown man, thats why theres an image of him, that u devils, you white people HIDE showing him black, u dumb simple minded craka
HISTORYOFTHE12 2 years ago
Don´t be foolish. The people in Tunesia aren´t black.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
He was born in north africa, where israelites were, he was black
HISTORYOFTHE12 2 years ago
No, he was not. Look at a portray of him. But i think it is senseless to discuss with you.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Les arabes, de toutes façons, font parti de la race blanche.
Refragatio 2 years ago
Why begin a film about Rome with 'Hollywood' African music? What a stupid concept - you would have been thown to the lions for that, and rightly so! The greatest Empire in the World and you play the music from "The Lion King" *sigh*..
andy7666 2 years ago 2
Rome the ethernal city of the seven hils
betawarior 2 years ago 2
you just show characters from hbo rome and say that they were emperors. scheiss video
pullo42 2 years ago
No, He's got a great video here. Some of the greatest Roman Leaders, some of which have changed Our lives today.
If it wasen't for constantine, we would all be Pagans in the West.
Your mistake, is that the Director has used film clips, but not all of the Emporors have appeared in films.
-Yeold.
Yeoldehyltonville 2 years ago 2
This film wouldn't be about showing the actors who play these roles, no - the intention of this movie I believe is more based on giving a correct timeline, rather than showing clips from shows.
And I just want to say: bravo for this film, very entertaining.
The only thing that I'm missing in ths video is Gaius Julius Caesar - but not because I consider him to be an emperor, but because he created recreated the thought of a leader with monopoly on power, economics, culture and civil order.
keyralover1914 2 years ago
Constantine was a terrible emperor you realise though?
LolBananaPhone 2 years ago
He was just as bad as Diocletian. The Five Good Emperors were the only ones that I would have wanted to live under, and they were all pagan.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
Who do yo mean with the five good emperors? Vespasian? Trajan? Augustus?
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius (time span: 96AD-180AD)
The Julio-Claudian period was full of treachery, purges, and asassinations. Augustus was the only truly successful Julio-Claudian emperor. After him they only got worse.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
There was suppsoed to be a comma after Hadrian. Rome had many bad emperors and way too much internal strife but it's success has to be measured by it's ability to survive.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
Nerva wasn´t a good emperor. In fact his reign was nearly an anarchy. Because he was a weak ruler he had to execute the murderers of Domitian although they made possible that he came to power. And Trajan was responsible for the miltary catastrophy in the east, while Marcus Aurelius tolerated an incapable person - Lucius Verus - as second emperor and ignored that his son Commodus wasn´t an appropriate successor at all.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
The Five Good emperors were considered the best as far as they treated the population in terms of humanity-not military successes or who they chose as successors.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
They treated the population well, ok, but Nerva doesn´t deserve the honor to be added to be them. On the hand he reigned very short, just 16 months, on the other hand he didn´t solved the problems. That was the work of Trajan. And a human policy needs the background to be realized. And that was the peace and the prosperity within the empire. Before and after there was no possibility for humanitarian emperors.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
i'm still a pagan in the West; who is that god of Constantine, is he mighty?
plonsdrums 2 years ago
Look down to the past, bloody idiot.
Refragatio 2 years ago
it was an ironic reply; no need to insult, friendly friend
plonsdrums 2 years ago
What is funny is that the five best emperors were either pagan or stoics. Christian Emperors were as bad as some of the pagan emperors from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
Good, the five best emperors, i think you mean Augustus, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, were pagan, but on the other hand Constantine and the other christian emperors didn´t want to change their policy because of their confession. There is a continuance from the emperors of the third century and those from the fourth.
Princepsmaximus 2 years ago
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius were considered the best five emperors cited by political philosopher Machiavelli in the early 16th century. These emperors did not fear the population or the Senate like their predecessors or successors. They were deemed to have lived just lives and had good virtues.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
And this is the irony of my original post. They were not christian. This really makes you think. I grew up catholic and Constantine is held up like he was some good person. Religion is just a backdrop in the end.
TargetGuy2245 2 years ago
Interesting to see that Dante's 'Divine Comedy' placed Roman pagans of good virtue, i.e. Cato and Vergilius, in purgatory; just one step away from heaven.
plonsdrums 2 years ago
Also interesting that the limbo is reserved also for the "Virtuous Pagans".(i.e. Virgil, Homber, Caesar)
AssyrianGuy34 2 years ago
Its maxentius on vid not domitian...
aure232 3 years ago
which is the lyric s name?
voidname 3 years ago
Lion King - The Circle of Life.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
i believe this music is african and the history is euriasian
cawoxasan 3 years ago
It's a real shame that many of these emperors haven't been portrayed on film or TV. There's too much focus on the late Republic and the early Empire in popular culture, imo. I'd really like a movie or TV series on the Constantinian dynasty.
TWKang 3 years ago
Yes, that would be nice. A portray about Hadrian, Commodus, Elagabal or Julian the Apostate would also be very interesting.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
THat is what made the movie Gladiator so good. It dealt with the late pagan Rome. The Fall of the Roman Empire is another Marcus Aurelius period film that depicts Rome late in the pagan period. The Julian-Claudian dynasty is popular because of all the classic appearances, styles, and it was a much more treacherous (thus exciting) time.
TargetGuy2245 3 years ago
the word: "emperor" is from the latin word imperator, which Gaius Julius Ceasar was declared.
Although he did never us the term "emperor", he still acted as one. you cannot formely call him an emperor, because noone in the antique did, but i agree with Princepsmaximus: he is the father of all emperors in rome.
keyralover1914 3 years ago
Yes, "imperator" was a military, not a political title and Caesar was not the first imperator. But what has been new that was the durability of this title. The power of Caesar and Augustus was build on the strength of the legions.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
But you Have not listed any of the emperors from The Byzantine Roman Empire.
They had many great Roman emperors like Justinian 1 for instance.
Remember the Roman empire did not end when the western Roman empire fell.
It ended completely at the fall of Constantiople in 1453 to the Ottoman turks.
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
Yes, but that doesn´t count as roman history itself. The Byzantine Empire is different from the Western Empire that fell down in 476. Their language was greek and Constantinople not Rome was their centre. Furthermore it didn´t have the enormous world power the united Roman Empire had.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
Yes it does count as Roman History because they were Romans still.
They called them selfs Romans,they regarded their empire as the Roman Empire.
And their emperors were regarded as Roman emperors.
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
The emperors like Charles the Great have seen themself as roman emperors as well. They said the empire continued from Augustus to the Holy Roman emperors. But it is consensus the ancient world ended between the fourth and seventh century. Alexios I. and Constantine XI. are not the same as Hadrian and Septimius Severus.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
Well Napeoleon also considerd himself a a Roman emperor but he was not of Roman decent at all like some of the ones you mentioned.
The eastern roman empire was Rome"the term Byzantine Empire was invented by todays historians beacause of the capitals location the old city of Byzantium"it wasn't called that they were Rome,After the western capital Rome fell to the Vandals.
The new capital was Constantinople,the Roman empire didn't die then,it lived on in the east.
They were Romans
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Yes it does count as Roman History because they were Romans still.
They called them selfs Romans,they regarded their empire as the Roman Empire.
And their emperors were regarded as Roman emperors.
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
Sorry for the repost i was gonna write it as a reply
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
He was the first emperor of Rome
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
What about the first Julius Ceasar?
He was one of the greatest
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
It´s the question wether you can call Caesar the first emperor or his adoptive son Augustus. Sueton begins his collection of emperor biographys with Caesar. But the principat is still a bit different from Caesar´s order. I would say you could call him the "father" of all emperors.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
I still feel that he should be on the list.
He was the first person declared emperor.
It was the act of declaring himself Imperator for life that resulted in his assasination.
And Augustus succeded him.
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
How was he declared emperor? Okay, the made him to dictator for life, but Augustus and the other emperors weren´t dictator for life.
Princepsmaximus 3 years ago
You have a point there.The diffrence is that during Julius Ceasars time Rome was a Republic and because of that his title cannot officicaly be Emperor.
Even though they do share complete conrol over the army and the state a Dictator and a Emperor.
You are correct.
CocaPepsis 3 years ago
nigger music? bullshit!
thanateros 3 years ago