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Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:41 pm to Boo Krewe
Constantine
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:42 pm to prplhze2000
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Sulla.
This.
Not an Emperor per se but when he became dictator he definitely was sort of a proto-emperor.
Fascinating character. From his early impoverished days to his time as an aid to and then rival of Marius to his reign of terror as dictator to his giving it up voluntarily once he had installed the conservative elements of the Senate in what (he thought) was a secure position to his retirement to a late life of really heavy partying and bi-sexual orgy-ing to his death which I think legend has it had him infested by worms or something.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 8:50 pm to Methuselah
Killed three women to obtain enough money to sit in the Senate. Aide to Marius. Captured jugurtha. Won Italian civil war. First Roman to March on Rome and drove out Marius. Went to greece and beat mithradates while cut off from home support due to an overthrow of the government and purge. Came home and won another Civil war. Instituted his own purge. Retired and died of disease or natural causes. Most feared Roman for centuries, even more than Caesar.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 10:33 pm to prplhze2000
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Caesar
In him there are many Mariuses
Posted on 11/18/16 at 10:49 pm to TIGERSTORM
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It has been far too long since I watched I, Claudius.
One of the best things ever done.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 10:55 pm to jackmanusc
Sulla is one of the few Romans who could've beaten Caesar. Marius is another.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:19 pm to Boo Krewe
Gore Vidal wrote an excellent novel about Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor.
Vidal claimed he did not intend for it to be any sort of metaphor for the end of western civilization, though these days it's hard not to see it that way.
Vidal claimed he did not intend for it to be any sort of metaphor for the end of western civilization, though these days it's hard not to see it that way.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:32 pm to prplhze2000
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Sulla is one of the few Romans who could've beaten Caesar. Marius is another.
It's an interesting debate, but one which I doubt can ever been definitively settled comparing great generals from different eras if they had met in their primes.
Marius and Sulla were sort of contemporaries but not precisely. Marius was really on the downslide, at first physically and then mentally (I think he was pretty much bat shite crazy at the very end) when Sulla beat him.
And I think Ceasar was no more than a child or very young man when those two were kicking.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:37 pm to Boo Krewe
Trajan. His son Hadrian is another good choice.
This post was edited on 11/18/16 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 11/19/16 at 12:41 am to Boo Krewe
Gonna go with the one that fricked dudes wives in front of them and who had his own mom...and wife...and unborn child..killed
Posted on 11/19/16 at 1:51 am to Boo Krewe
quote:Honestly, the answer would vary, depending on the format you choose.
What Roman Emperor would make a good show/movie?
A great movie would have a strong and powerful story/conflict, building to a climax... and then it's done. You don't really care what happens before or afterwards that much, it's a moment in time.
A series requires multiple conflicts spread over time to keep you engaged. Can't have one that is so huge that the others are outdone by it, or else the seasons would suffer. Needs some continual minor events happening, to carry it out over time.
Not sure which Roman emperors lend themselves to long-term, vs a short but epic story, offhand.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 4:46 am to jackmanusc
Should be a long series on Sulla until Gaius Octavius victory parade in Rome after defeating Mark Anthony.
The series should have all the players in it, even down to the person (Decimus Brutus, an outstanding general in Gallic war) who got Julius to go to the senate on the Ides of March.
The series should have all the players in it, even down to the person (Decimus Brutus, an outstanding general in Gallic war) who got Julius to go to the senate on the Ides of March.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 5:47 am to Methuselah
Marius began having strokes.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 8:54 am to Boo Krewe
Have a story about the year with 4 emperors
Posted on 11/19/16 at 10:29 am to gthog61
Vespasian would make for an interesting story, a general in the 2nd invasion of England to Emperor of Rome after being sent into a semi exile by Nero.
The last standing Emperor in the year of 4 emperors.
The last standing Emperor in the year of 4 emperors.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 1:05 pm to tigger1
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Should be a long series on Sulla until Gaius Octavius victory parade in Rome after defeating Mark Anthony.
If they went this route, they'd have a ready made narrative source (in addition to the historical sources) in Colleen McCollough's Masters of Rome book series. I'd rather them start from the beginning of that - with Marius and the older Ceasar family and maybe go to Sulla sparing young Julius Ceasar from the proscriptions or Ceasar and the pirates or something like that. There is plenty stuff on later Ceasar already but they would be set up for a sequel series if the first one was huge.
Posted on 11/19/16 at 2:31 pm to Methuselah
She wrote the script
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