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It's been a while, but I think some of the general idea around the emperors after Augustus (the first several anyway, including Tiberius and Caligula) got their histories sort of... revised? by those who came later and wanted to demonize the former emperors to make themselves look better or whatever.
Like Claudius was written about as basically being a complete moron yet he was pretty competent as an emperor. It makes one wonder why historians at the time took all this time to say how unfit a person was or how they fucked their mom and all this shit, which may well be true, who knows, but it does seem like intentionally shitting on all of them except Augustus of course since dude lived so long be basically established himself as a demigod before he died.
You can pretty much be assured that anyone in history who ever wore a crown was a dogshit person in some capacity, but it's worth considering the sources for bloody excess like what Caligula gets pinned with. And since the creator uncritically put Mao and Stalin and Kim Il-Sung on a list alongside Hitler, they're probably absolutely incapable of considering sourcing.
Yeah, it's important to understand ancient Roman culture and traditions in order to understand their primary sources. The nobility were incredibly conservative, and loved looking back on this mythologized past of Rome where Romans were real Romans and not like the wokescold cuck sjw emperors like Claudius and Nero.
There is a weird amount of overlap between the modern US and ancient Rome. I guess it makes sense, they did try to build their society to be like their idealized version of the Roman republic.
It's been a while, but I think some of the general idea around the emperors after Augustus (the first several anyway, including Tiberius and Caligula) got their histories sort of... revised? by those who came later and wanted to demonize the former emperors to make themselves look better or whatever.
Like Claudius was written about as basically being a complete moron yet he was pretty competent as an emperor. It makes one wonder why historians at the time took all this time to say how unfit a person was or how they fucked their mom and all this shit, which may well be true, who knows, but it does seem like intentionally shitting on all of them except Augustus of course since dude lived so long be basically established himself as a demigod before he died.
You can pretty much be assured that anyone in history who ever wore a crown was a dogshit person in some capacity, but it's worth considering the sources for bloody excess like what Caligula gets pinned with. And since the creator uncritically put Mao and Stalin and Kim Il-Sung on a list alongside Hitler, they're probably absolutely incapable of considering sourcing.
Yeah, it's important to understand ancient Roman culture and traditions in order to understand their primary sources. The nobility were incredibly conservative, and loved looking back on this mythologized past of Rome where Romans were real Romans and not like the wokescold cuck sjw emperors like Claudius and Nero.
So they're just modern conservatives but probably less homophobic?
There is a weird amount of overlap between the modern US and ancient Rome. I guess it makes sense, they did try to build their society to be like their idealized version of the Roman republic.