I've been reading alot about the Roman Empire lately, and was wondering who do you guys think was the worst of them all? Use whatever criteria you want, but let us know what it is.

My picks:

Worst for his people: Caracalla. He had the same levels of atrocities as the other bad ones, but he went around the whole empire committing them rathar than restricting them to one zone. After killing his brother, he had 1/4 of the population of Alexandria killed because one person made a poem suggesting that he was guilty.

Worst for the empire: Honorius. You could say there were many people before him who were nescissary to make his sucktitude possible, and that is probably true, but He had a reasonable foundation to build on coming after Theodosius. He pretty much did everything in his power to make sure rome was indefensible, eleminating his best generals and troops before the sack of Rome. He moved the capital to Ravenna where he would be secure while the rest of Italy was pillaged. Also during his reign the final collapse began, and the empire was ruled alot more by barbarians.

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Caligula the crazy horse



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I was thinking Commodus as pretty bad for his people. He was kind of like Kim Jong-il. He terrorizes his people, displaying himself as a demigod akin to Hercules, renaming people after his own name and so on...

Nero

1) Caligula (37-41)
Caligula revived the treason trials of his predecessor, Tiberius, opened a brothel in the palace, raped whomever he wished, reported on the woman's performance to her husband, committed incest, killed for greed, and thought he should be treated as a god.
2) Elagabalus (218-224)
Elagabalus did not act in a manner befitting an emperor, stopping short of self-castration in his pursuit of alien religions. This transvestite emperor raped a vestal virgin and in his unsatiable sexuality, set up a brothel at the palace. He imprisoned and executed those who criticized him.
3) Commodus (180-192)
Commodus was lazy and led a life of debauchery surrendering control to his freedmen and praetorian prefects who then sold imperial favors. He disgraced his status by performing like a slave in the arena. He styled himself the Roman Hercules.
4) Nero (54-68)
Nero murdered his mother and wife. He confiscated senators' property and severely taxed the people to build his own golden home. Whether he played his lyre while Rome burned or was involved behind the scenes in some other way, he put the blame on the Christians and had many killed.
5) Domitian (81-96)
Domitian was paranoid about conspiracies. He developed new tortures and harassed philosophers and Jews. He had vestal virgins executed or buried alive on charges of immorality. After he impregnated his niece, he insisted she have an abortion and then, when she died as a result, he deified her. He executed officials who opposed his policies and confiscated their property.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aatp5romanemperors.htm

I remember once i ve read another article though,Nero wasnt that bad...actually he was liked by the roman people O_O
it was the damn capitalists who wanted him down!


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