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Trajan...just because he built the column, and Louisa May Alcott saw an icicle under his nose in winter--what happens to vain people.
Marcus Aurelius--expanded the city limits to the greatest; always depicted riding a horse, seen at Fry's in Fountain Valley (disgracefully, his head is missing.)
Hadrian--expanded the national borders to the greatest.
Hadrian was a great builder too. He comissioned and helped design the Pantheon which introduced the world to the "dome".
Aurelian and Probus:
Think about a Caesar in all his pomp and glory of absolute power. Can you imagine replacing the imperial palace with the walls of a Persian prison? How amusing would you find the term "imperial slave". LOL.
Never since the seat of Caesar was put on sale, which was foolishly bought by Didius Julianus only to be tragically executed by the Praetorian guard, who offered the sale in the first place anyway, did the seat of the emperor get vilified so much as with Valerian.
Valerian does not deserve this though, he was a fairly good emperor and all of a sudden he found himself stranded in battle with the Persians.
He simply could not flee. Before he could run to his chariot, Shapur had his hand on his tail.
Shapur I of Persia captured Valerian and paraded his imperial slave before his own legions in every future battle with his Roman enemies. Can one imagine a Roman adversary mounting on to his horse using the back of Caesar himself? Julius Caesar did that to the King of Gauls. It's funny how fate oscillates in history.
The emasculation of the empire was thus complete. Collapse was imminent. But Aurelian showed up just in time.
Aurelian was among the first of the efficient "barracks emperors". He quickly fought a series of battles. He was a brute known for his mercilessness and this disciplined the P. guard and the legions temporarily. He still got assassinated by them, though.
Probus carried on Aurelian's campaign effectively from where he left off.
These two guys effectively restored Rome to 60% of its old glory.....
Guess the only guys in the poll left now are the Flavians. I never liked them a lot anyway. They were lucky they closely followed Augustus and were lucky again for the "Five Good Emperors" to closely follow suit. It's therefore very difficult to assess their true skills as emperors as they are well placed chronologically, but I still wanna give it a shot some time later.
Didius Julianus (bought the crown, yet killed by the Pee guard)
Domitian
Elagabalus
My current hobby is in-depth research on Diocletian's coinage reforms. A must read for every currency trader, but very few currency traders have read this. It's also an economist's handbook in fiscal reform. Much like the study of the depression.
The Flavians as I mentioned before are also the luckiest of emperors, between the Julius line and closely follow by the five. Otherwise, someone like Domitian would have wrecked the empire.
I went for Claudius, the one halfway decent guy among the Caesars.
The obvious choice would be Marcus Aurelius, but I often wonder if he just lucked out, coming to the purple before things started to go pearshape. Had he reigned fifty years later, would his tenure have been any longer than the Gordians?
My favorite Roman emperor is NERO him crushed di British rebellion with him mighty hand
many people seh Indians were savages and Negros good for nothing savages but 2,000 years ago di west was di cradle of savagery and vampires, according to mighty NERO and others of
old times.
However, Claudius gets an attaboy from me for writing two bitchin' novels.
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