@@rpaul4197 So you're saying that judging their actions without knowing the context of them is ignorant? Im joking btw. Do you think they were like a check on corrupt emperors? Since they were emperors for life, they had to die for a new one right? Or were the praetorian guard just greedy for more money? Probably a combination of both.
@@GuRuGeorge03 ummm no they didnt, the praetorians were a corrupted political institution thanks to the work of that bastard sejanus and augustus bitch viper of a wife livia. they didnt kill for the good of the empire,they killed anyone that threatened their position and political power or anyone that refused to bribe them. these are the cunts who killed pertinax and sold the title of emperor off to the highest bidder. these are the cunts who murdered the restitutor orbis.
@@rpaul4197 🤣🤣🤣 dude you must be joking, the praetorians were one of if not the most corrupt institution in rome, they made the senate look like loyal lapdogs in comparison
Candidates actually often refused when asked, but if you were hailed it was often an automatic death sentence since it gives you legitimacy, thus makes you a rival.
Think of the handful of men who were told "You're the emperor now." Then refused it, then were told "YOU'RE the emperor or you're dead, choose." And they always got killed anyway. Praetorians were indeed the bastard step child of the army.
So while Caesar had something dramatic, Vitellius had something tragic, and Vespian claimed he was becoming a god; Claudius's last words were apparently him claiming that he had shit himself?? Damn, that's an embarrassing legacy to have.
I like Vespasian. he had worked his way up the ladder of the army...he was lowborn and knew it. never liked bootlickers. So yeah, he felt death coming on and, since romans liked to deify their emperors after they'd died, Vespasian mocked it.
Elagabalus was a hilariously terrible emperor. He was known to "prank" his subjects by doing things like giving them rocks painted like grapes, hiding lions in rooms, and even having a lottery where you could win a slave, or poisonous snakes.
The Persian empire promoted the idea that Nero didn't kill himself. They minted their own Roman coins with Nero's face on it and they even told people in India that the emperor of Rome was living in Persia. They probably planned on using a look alike to invade at the lest the eastern half for themselves.
That's what happens when you fail your father's legacy and fail to incorporate and assimilate the Germanic tribes. They would've been of great use to Rome in the future!
@human oid Constantinople: I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you over this millenium of extra life I lived. Do tell me how that German boot-heel tastes.
Leading cause of death of the late Roman emperors: killed by the Praetorian guard/their soldiers. Also Julian the Apostate's last words might be about Jesus.
@@bumsmeller7950 I'm not sure. The main thing is that the quote is considered apocryphal, and that those were likely not his real last words. But, if it is what he said, or something close to it, it seems to suggest that he realized Paganism would be defeated by Christianity, and that he realized his reign was its last real stand. Whether or not the quote reflects an acceptance of Christianity on his deathbed - who knows, probably not in my opinion.
@@soloknight7197 - I'm pretty sure he killed Trajan, whether you consider that right or wrong is up to you. Also he abandoned Mesopotamia and vast lands in Caledonia, inaugurating the era of the shrinking Empire. That's dubious at best.
That’s why you don’t make your guards have any stake in Roman politics. The Byzantine emperors knew this and that’s why they made their personal guards full of foreigners.
Julius Caesar age of death: 56 (assassinated) Augustus: 49 (Unknown, typical Roman Emperor assassination?) Tiberius: 89 (Natural causes, assassination, my bet is on natural causes he was super old) Caligula: 29 (assassinated) Claudius: 74 (Agrippa killed him to get Nero on the throne, baaaadd choice, woman!) Nero: 31 (became emperor at 17) (assisted Suicide) Galba: 75 (lasted one year before being assassinated) Otho: 37 (ruled 3 months, suicide) Vitellius: 54 (ruled 9 months, assassinated) 69 AD had three emperors! Vespasian: 70 (ruled 10 years, natural causes, the first emperor to die without assassination or suicide) Titus: 42 (fever) Domitian: 45, (back to assassinating emperors!) Nerva: 68 (stroke and fever) Trajan: 64 (stroke and edema) Hadrian: 62 (natural causes) Antoninus Pius: 75 (illness) Lucius Verus: 39 (smallpox) Marcus Aurelius: 59 (Natural causes) Commodus: 31 (assassination) Pertinax: 67 (ruled 2 months, assassination) Didius Julianus: 60 (ruled 4 months, killed by angry soldier) Septimius Severus: 66 (Infectious disease) Geta: 22 (assassinated by Caracalla his own brother) Caracalla: 29 (assassinated) apparently their dad's final words fell in deaf ears. Caracalla's bust makes him look super evil. Macrinus: c. 53 (executed) Diadumenian: 10 (executed along with his dad) Elagabalus: 20 (assassination) Severus Alexander: 27 (assassinated) Maximinus Thrax: 65 (Assassinated, reported to be a Giant) Gordian I: 79 (one month, suicide) Gordian II: 46 (one month, co-rule with dad, Gordian; killed in battle) Pupienus: 71 (ruled three months with Balbinus, killed by general) Balbinus: 60 (co-ruled with Pupienus, killed by general) (6 emperors ruled in 238 AD!) Gordian III: 19 (ruled on 238 AD at age 13, killed in battle or murdered) Philip the Arab: 45 (assassinated by Decius) Philip II: 12 (co-ruled with dad, Philip, killed by general) Decius: 50 (died in battle with the Goths) Herennius Etruscus: 24 (co-ruled with dad for a month then get killed alongside with dad in the battle with the Goths). Hostilian: age unknown but bust make him look around late 20s (co-ruled with Trebonianus Gallus, unknown cause of death) Trebonianus Gallus: 47 (assassinated by usurpers) Volusianus: 23 (co-ruled with Trebonainus Gallus; assassinated by usurpers) Aemilius: 43 (ruled for 2 months; murdered by his own soldiers) (253 AD sucks) Valerian: 64 or 68 (captured by Persians, unknown when he died) Gallienus: 50 (co-ruled with Valerian, assassinated) Saloninus: 18 (co-ruled with Gallienius, assassinated) My bet is Gallienus had Valerian and Saloninus assassinated) Claudius Gothicus: 56 (illness by plague) Quintillus: unknown age (3 months in 270, unknown cause of death) Aurelian: 61 (murdered by general) Tacitus: 76 (fever or assassination) Florianus: age unknown (ruled 2 months, assassinated by his own soldiers) Probus: 50 (killed by his own soldiers) Carus: 61 (lightning?) Carinus: age unknown (death unknown) Numerian: age unknown (co-ruled with dad Carinus, assassinated?) Diocletian: 61 (one of my favorite emperors, illness or suicide) Maxiimian: 55 (western Emperor, suicide) Galerius: 53 (eastern Emperor, gangrene) Constantius Chlorus: 56 (western emperor, illness) Valerius Severus: 57 (western emperor, executed or forced suicide) Constantine: 65 (western Emperor, then full Emperor in 324; illness) Maxientius: 36 (western Emperor, killed in civil war with Constantine) Licinius: 59 (western Emperor, executed by Constantine I) Maximinus Daia: 43 (eastern Emperor, Graves Disease his bust does shows the bulging eyes) Valerius Valens: age unknown (eastern Emperor, co-ruled with Licinius, executed) Martinian: age unknown (executed by Constantine) Constantine II: 24 (died in civil war) Constans: 30 (western Emperor, assassinated) Vetranio: age unknown (western emperor for 7 months, natural causes) Constanius II: 44 (western Emperor then full in 350 AD, illness) Julian the Apostate: 32 (killed in battle) Jovian: 34 (natural causes) Valentinian I: 54 (western Emperor; cerebral aneurysm) Valens: 50 (eastern Emperor, battled with Goths) Gratian: 24 (western Emperor, killed by soldiers) Valentinian II: 21 (co-ruled with dad at 4 then full emperor; suicide or murder) Theodosius I: 48 (Western Emperor then full Emperor for one year; edema) Magnus Maximus: 53 (Western Emperor but usurpred by Gratian, executed by Theodosius I) Victor: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I) Eugenius: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I) Honorius: 39 (son of Theodosius I, western Emperor; edema) Arcadius: 31 (son of Theodosius I, eastern Emperor, natural causes) Theodosius II: 49 (co-ruled with dad Arcadius at age one til 394 when dad died; hunting accident) Constantine III: age unknown (co-ruled with Honorius til 409 then full emperor for 2 years, executed by Constantinus III) Constans II: age unknown (co-ruled with Constantinus III, killed by usurpers ) Constantius III: age unknown (didn't ruled long after he killed everyone, natural causes) Valentinian III: 36 (western Emperor, assassinated) Joannes: age unknown (western Emperor, rival of Valentinian III, killed by rivals) Marcian: 65 (eastern Emperor, gout) Petronius Maximus: 58 (western Emperor ruled for 3 months before getting killed by a mob in Rome, dang...) Avitus: 69 (western Emperor, assassinated) Leo I: 73 (eastern emperor, dysentery) Majorian: 41 (western Emperor, assassinated) Libius Severus: age unknown (western Emperor, natural causes or assassinated) Athemius: 52 (western Emperor, executed by Ricimer) Olybrius: age unknown (western Emperor for 5-6 months, natural causes) Glycerius: age unknown( western Emperor, unknown cause of death) Leo II: 7 (co-ruled with Zeno, assassinated) Julius Nepos: 45 (western Emperor, Assassinated) Romulus Augustulus: 47, western emperor, unknown) Zeno: 66 (reigns twice, illness or dysentery) Basilicus: age unknown (executed by starvation...dang again) Marcus: age unknown (co-ruled with Basilicus; executed by starvation) Anastasius I: 87 (natural causes) Justin I: 77 (natural causes) Justinian I: 83 (natural causes)
Theodosius II wasn't born yet in 394.his reign started in 408 and ended in 450. Your probably thinking of Arcadius and got confused.Doubt that Gallienius would kill his very own son and father.His son being Killed by the Founder of the Short lived Gaulic Empire.Valerian dieing in Persia.Leo II (was Zeno's own son.he most likely died of a illness.)
Trajan's last words: "damn, Hadrian, could you please stop banging my wife for a change?, I'm trying to die here!" Hadrian's last words: "minor, compactor, mellior".
@@mrmcconko4985 A player in which sense of the word? All I know is that there is a very good conspiracy theory of armchair historians suggesting that Hadrian and Trajan's wife killed Trajan and that they were lovers. Who knows if true or just mad speculation? But "si non é vero, é ben trovatto", you know.
@@LuisAldamiz I mean a player as in like sleeping with someone else wife and I hope that's not true it seems trajan was very found of hadrian and I personally love both of them but history is always filled with these sort of questions and unfortunately well never know but that kind of makes it fun aswell to speculate yano
Also: "It has been suggested that Trajan's young manservant Phaedimus, who died very soon after Trajan, was killed (or killed himself) rather than face awkward questions". >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian#Succession Also Trajan's adoption of Hadrian was dated one day after Trajan's death! It's a bunch of irregularities... suspicious irregularities, but maybe only affect the issue of succession and does not necessarily mean that Trajan was murdered.
There is evidence that Romulus Augustulus survived and was in exile. Only a single letter with pension from the monarch that deposed him some 30 years later. It'd be nice to know that not all Emperors, especially a 16 year old, were brutally murdered.
HE was actually like the most lst western Emporers a puppet Ruler so its understandable that he wasnt targeted as a child that has no skill has no dager potecial.
They were flourishing in the fields of art and knowledge. As time progressed, these qualities diminished with the quality of the emperors; thus the quality of art and its keen focus disappeared.
The statues were probably a deliberate choice to imitate the more simplistic oriental style of statues, though a cultural decline was certainly under way
It's horrifying and sends chills down my spine. The early statues were so realistic and expressive, later it devolves into the faces looking like molten cheese(11:20,13:15), such fall from grace. Many people don't realize that the same could - and will, happen to us.
Shows the strength and resolve of the average citizen to carry on despite that. They held it all together. In today's world cities riot over a hockey game championship.
The last known words of Emperor Hadrian are in fact this poem he wrote shortly before his death: « Roving amiable little soul, Body's companion and guest, Now descending for parts Colourless, unbending, and bare Your usual distractions no more shall be there »
7:13 might have been struck by lighting while on campaign? If that's true, that's super unlucky. But it did save him from a possible assassination like the others so...yay??
So far, as of 08/26/2020 FOL uploaded over 148,392 seconds of content which is 106 videos on TH-cam. You can watch it all in 1.72 days or 21 hours if you do it by 2x speed. That is if you do it non-stop. It is outstanding to think that Fire of Learning gone from a small channel with well under 1K subs in mid 2017 up to a staggering 332K subs in 2020. 2016 and 2017 was such a familiar time!
Thank you. See, you are a smart guy. You really need to try focus on positive things, like statistics and data, rather than some of the other things you are interested in which can lead you into a lot of dark places in life.
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@@tylerellis9097 - I would also like a sword with him. Anyhow I had to look him up at Wikipedia and I just realized how fake were those Greek "emperors": how could he call himself "Tiberius III" (TIberios Gamma in his language?) when he should be Tiberius IV (Tiberios Delta?) They are totally dissing Tiberius Nero!!! He was not even named Tiberius in real life but Apsimar, what seems Germanic.
You forgot some - namely Caligula and Otho. Also, you should've mentioned that Nero's words before he was stabbed - which were probably intended to be his last words until a soldier arrived and attempted to stop the blood flow - were "Qualis artifex pereo" - literally "What an artist [I] die", usually translated as "What an artist dies in me".
It'd be an interesting curiosity to decipher the meaning of emperors' names. For example Tacitus means "subtle, unspoken" (so no wonder he had no final words, I guess), Pertinax menas "tenacious, obstinate", Commodus is "comfortable, pleasant", etc.
@CipiRipi00 OK, you are of course right. My facepalm is well deserved. However I read that cognomina were sometimes hereditary (and growingly so as time passed) so, for instance, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, had Scipio as cognomen (already inherited among a branch of the gens Cornelia) and was given the personal agnomen (nickname) Africanus. On the other hand Commodus did not have the same cognomen as his father, which was Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus vs Lucius Aurelius Commodus). So the Aurelii seem to have been a more antiquated family in what regards to naming than the Cornelii, at least in what regards to Commodus, because I quote from Wikipedia what is believed to be the history of his name: "His name at birth was supposedly Marcus Annius Verus, but some sources assign this name to him upon his father's death and unofficial adoption by his grandfather, upon his coming of age, or at the time of his marriage. He may have been known as Marcus Annius Catilius Severus, at birth or at some point in his youth, or Marcus Catilius Severus Annius Verus. Upon his adoption by Antoninus as heir to the throne, he was known as Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus Caesar and, upon his ascension, he was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus until his death". It gets quite complicated...
On Carus being struck by lighting, imagine how frightening and demoralizing that would have been to the troops given the beliefs of the Roman deities, it would have been seen as Jupiter himself killing the emperor
Praetorian Guard: "Hey emperor, I could really use a day off this weekend." Emperor: "Nah." And that's how so many of them got killed by their own guards. Either that, or the guild of millers wasn't giving them true roman bread for true romans.
Fun fact: the last Western Roman Emperor was named Romulus, the same name who founded the kingdom of Rome before turning into a Republic then the Empire
Imagine thinking you get to run the biggest empire of the time and you think; "I think this time, I *won't* be assassinated unlike the rest before me!"
"100% of Roman emperors died" Not true Julius, Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian and Constantine were seen alive some days ago in Rome.
@Mialisus or to be quarantined at home due to social distancing...
can u explain please?
@General Grievous They left comments on youtube from this year dude, did you even check?
What about the “marble emperor,” Constantine XI ? Sleeping since 1453… Awaiting his chance to reclaim Constantinople and his empire.
General Grievous no I have proof Julius is on my couch
Assassinated by his successor, a natural cause of death to the roman emperors.
“What happened to him?”
“He was poisoned by our enemies.”
“Good answer.”
@@Kerriangel Suggested edit: Understandable have a great day.
Someone: *becomes Roman emperor*
Praetorians: "Your free trial of being alive has expired!"
Lol
that happened in 1235 b.c.e
hahahahahahahahahahaha
what's a free trial of being alive?
that emperor is called valentinius[ Gordian claudius valentinius, valentinius [223 a.d - 231 a.d] [191 a.d - 231 a.d] cause: osteoporosis,blood letting, insane dysentery
If you ever feel bad at your job, remember the praetorian guard had one SIMPLE job, and failed miserably
if u see the preatorian guard as protectors of rome instead of protectors of the emperor, then they did their job extremely well.
@@GuRuGeorge03 no?
@@rpaul4197 So you're saying that judging their actions without knowing the context of them is ignorant? Im joking btw. Do you think they were like a check on corrupt emperors? Since they were emperors for life, they had to die for a new one right? Or were the praetorian guard just greedy for more money? Probably a combination of both.
@@GuRuGeorge03 ummm no they didnt, the praetorians were a corrupted political institution thanks to the work of that bastard sejanus and augustus bitch viper of a wife livia. they didnt kill for the good of the empire,they killed anyone that threatened their position and political power or anyone that refused to bribe them.
these are the cunts who killed pertinax and sold the title of emperor off to the highest bidder. these are the cunts who murdered the restitutor orbis.
@@rpaul4197 🤣🤣🤣 dude you must be joking, the praetorians were one of if not the most corrupt institution in rome, they made the senate look like loyal lapdogs in comparison
There is nobody more trustworthy than a Praetorian Guard
imagine if there was a guard who had multiple emperor kills.
Ironically if the Praetorian guards existed towards the ending of the empire,all those incompetent fucktards wouldn't have gotten to Power
KaYo Yeah
WFT, they were supposed to protect the Emperor, but they served as fucking personal executioners more often.
Granted that you pay them off handsomely enough!
Augustus' last words are incredibly epic and true.
I thought it was interesting when he made the remark
"Israel isn't a legiti- *Dies"
You say that, but then there's Hadrian, who died of natural causes.
Patrick Collins *Hava Nagila noises*
True? In a figurative sense but not literal.
I too want as an epitaph on my tombstone “assassinated by the praetorian guards”
I would like but your on 69
@@xxcoochiexx1940 now you can do it
Imperial Roulette:
1. Assassination
2. Execution
3. Suicide
4. Death in battle
5. Illness
6. Lightning
Rolling a 6 is incredibly challenging.
7. Anger stroke (Valentinian I)
@@noodlecoffee193 We'll pass this along as suicide. He literally killed himself with anger and we''ve got only 6 rounds for the game.
Where is the Praetorian guards like bruh.
@@lucasgamalielquiapo5625 Goes under Assassination/Execution.
Praetorian Guards: " Hail Steve, Hail Caesar!"
Me: "Um....no thanks, guys, this job's a bit too dangerous".
C'mon Steve ☺️
Candidates actually often refused when asked, but if you were hailed it was often an automatic death sentence since it gives you legitimacy, thus makes you a rival.
@The Nova renaissance Yes, because that ended well for Crassus and Valerian /s
@@davidegaribaldi1503 "Oh, (looks at pointy spears), what the Hades, you only live so long."
Think of the handful of men who were told "You're the emperor now." Then refused it, then were told "YOU'RE the emperor or you're dead, choose." And they always got killed anyway. Praetorians were indeed the bastard step child of the army.
These guards are killing almost every second emperor. Aren't they supposed to protect them? 😅
With enough dinari they would do anything
Romans for ya
@@Hugh_Morris you wanna count assassinated presidents?
@@rusalkin nowhere near as many
@@Hugh_Morris And none by the secret service
So while Caesar had something dramatic, Vitellius had something tragic, and Vespian claimed he was becoming a god; Claudius's last words were apparently him claiming that he had shit himself??
Damn, that's an embarrassing legacy to have.
Hilarious
Otho's were pretty noble I feel. He killed himself to try to avoid civil war among the people.
I like Vespasian. he had worked his way up the ladder of the army...he was lowborn and knew it. never liked bootlickers. So yeah, he felt death coming on and, since romans liked to deify their emperors after they'd died, Vespasian mocked it.
I can respect very much Otho's last words, he died with unparalleled nobility
Such was life for Uncle Claudius
Elagabalus was a hilariously terrible emperor. He was known to "prank" his subjects by doing things like giving them rocks painted like grapes, hiding lions in rooms, and even having a lottery where you could win a slave, or poisonous snakes.
He needs a Biopic. Portrayed by Ricky Gervais. ;)
@Jason Baird No wonder he was assassinated
@@JamesRDavenport He does.
@The Nova renaissance I'd say he is both. He did these things while trying to be a good emperor, but yes he is an evil troll.
"It's just a prank, bro!" - Elagabalus
I wonder if Ancient Romans had conspiracy theories about how "(insert Emperor here) didn't kill himself".
yea, Caracalla killing Geta and then saing he comited suicide xd
@LegoGuy87 I guess Jeffrius Epsteinus owned and travelled on a private Boeing DCCXXVII jet.
Maybe but funny enough, the conspirators that killed so many emperors were rather open about it.
Nero didn't kill himself /s
The Persian empire promoted the idea that Nero didn't kill himself. They minted their own Roman coins with Nero's face on it and they even told people in India that the emperor of Rome was living in Persia. They probably planned on using a look alike to invade at the lest the eastern half for themselves.
Roman Emperor: You got a lot of nerve coming in here
Praetorian Guard: You got a lot of nerve being alive
Commodus last words were:
*violent drowning noises*
That's what happens when you fail your father's legacy and fail to incorporate and assimilate the Germanic tribes. They would've been of great use to Rome in the future!
Fuck Commodus
Oh where is my education, i of course meant C*mmodus
Commodus = 🚽
After Marcus said his last words, Rome began to set
Aye it did, an interesting occurrence
Constantinople: Am I a joke to you?
@human oid Constantinople: I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you over this millenium of extra life I lived. Do tell me how that German boot-heel tastes.
@@Anglomachian The west: I don't know, how does the persian pounding feel?
@@GeldtheGelded The East: I wouldn’t know, I haven’t heard much from them since that Arab guy showed up. You’re welcome, by the way.
Weren't Augustus's last words: 'Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.'
They were his private last words, the one in the video says (Public)
The source for those last words is not credible. It is a theatrical greek play source
@@dangiscongrataway2365 Still fills you with sorrow.
The video mentions them.
It literally shows that in the video lol
Augustus Caesar - “ Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who?”
Mark Antony let them slip
The irony of Romulus Augustulus' name is that he is named after Romulus, the first king and founder of Rome & Augustus the first Roman emperor.
My ex girlfriend would have been a great pretorian
Ba dum tchss!!!
When I finished reading my conscious shouted "Shot through the heart, and you're to blame, Darling you give love..a bad name."
My ex wife turned out to be Atilla the Hun.
Legionaries: "who has the best KD here?"
Praetorian guard: "i do"
Legionaries: "Team kills dont count"
Leading cause of death of the late Roman emperors: killed by the Praetorian guard/their soldiers.
Also Julian the Apostate's last words might be about Jesus.
Yes, they were a reference to Christ
Fire of Learning do you think julian became a christian in his last moments? i mean he did proclaim victory to Christ?
@@bumsmeller7950 I'm not sure. The main thing is that the quote is considered apocryphal, and that those were likely not his real last words. But, if it is what he said, or something close to it, it seems to suggest that he realized Paganism would be defeated by Christianity, and that he realized his reign was its last real stand.
Whether or not the quote reflects an acceptance of Christianity on his deathbed - who knows, probably not in my opinion.
I imagine Julian's last words were put into his mouth by a pro Christian historian. Sounds unlikely.
Michael Fisher if you understand Julian’s character and who he was, his last words weren’t far fetched
_“What are you gonna do? Stab me?”_
*proceeds stab him*
"aaarrrrrgh".....
*random crit*
-Vitellius, 69 AD
Noodle Coffee waa that really Vitellius? Lmao
Aurelian will be vindicated. Restorer of the world.
Ristivitor Orbis!
Ave!
Aurelian, a great emperor murdered by corrupt bureaucrats and soldiers.
He is one of my most favourite roman emperors
AVE!!!!!
Titus: I have made but one mistake
Hadrian: yeah i burned it to the ground, you're welcome.
Hadrian did nothing wrong
_Should have finished it tho_
Hadrian did nothing wrong
@@soloknight7197 - I'm pretty sure he killed Trajan, whether you consider that right or wrong is up to you.
Also he abandoned Mesopotamia and vast lands in Caledonia, inaugurating the era of the shrinking Empire. That's dubious at best.
@CipiRipi00 - Maybe. What is clear is that with Hadrian the Empire stops expanding and begins shrinking, even if only limitedly so.
Your roman history videos are my favorite. I think you and useful charts are my two favorites. Will have to check out your science page
7:10 imagine your predecessors dying because of assassinations, suicides, wars, and then you die "struck by lightning"
Claudius final words: "Uh oh, stinky, poop!"
Oof
hahahahahahahahahah
I believe the Gordian emporers found themselves in a knot.
LOL
That was a smart joke
Too bad alexander sliced it
Also Gordian: I am a frayed knot
bruh
I think we have all learned a lesson here....
The Praetorian Guard....... Bad idea.
Could be alive and kicking and defending Trump
Something Constantine the Great realized. Shame previous emperors did not.
@@nathanpangilinan4397 shame that so many emperors were killed by them and next emperors still do nothing about them.
That’s why you don’t make your guards have any stake in Roman politics. The Byzantine emperors knew this and that’s why they made their personal guards full of foreigners.
7:11 Carus, Struck by lightning? Explains the shocked expression on his coin.
I'm still amazed how we know all this stuff
@Will DeMarco Especially how one died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
@@Lucius7159 Most assassinations aren't ceremonial.
Before the Internet, there was one thing called print, and before print there was one thing called handwriting on a pig's skin. That's how!
Julius Caesar age of death: 56 (assassinated)
Augustus: 49 (Unknown, typical Roman Emperor assassination?)
Tiberius: 89 (Natural causes, assassination, my bet is on natural causes he was super old)
Caligula: 29 (assassinated)
Claudius: 74 (Agrippa killed him to get Nero on the throne, baaaadd choice, woman!)
Nero: 31 (became emperor at 17) (assisted Suicide)
Galba: 75 (lasted one year before being assassinated)
Otho: 37 (ruled 3 months, suicide)
Vitellius: 54 (ruled 9 months, assassinated) 69 AD had three emperors!
Vespasian: 70 (ruled 10 years, natural causes, the first emperor to die without assassination or suicide)
Titus: 42 (fever)
Domitian: 45, (back to assassinating emperors!)
Nerva: 68 (stroke and fever)
Trajan: 64 (stroke and edema)
Hadrian: 62 (natural causes)
Antoninus Pius: 75 (illness)
Lucius Verus: 39 (smallpox)
Marcus Aurelius: 59 (Natural causes)
Commodus: 31 (assassination)
Pertinax: 67 (ruled 2 months, assassination)
Didius Julianus: 60 (ruled 4 months, killed by angry soldier)
Septimius Severus: 66 (Infectious disease)
Geta: 22 (assassinated by Caracalla his own brother)
Caracalla: 29 (assassinated) apparently their dad's final words fell in deaf ears. Caracalla's bust makes him look super evil.
Macrinus: c. 53 (executed)
Diadumenian: 10 (executed along with his dad)
Elagabalus: 20 (assassination)
Severus Alexander: 27 (assassinated)
Maximinus Thrax: 65 (Assassinated, reported to be a Giant)
Gordian I: 79 (one month, suicide)
Gordian II: 46 (one month, co-rule with dad, Gordian; killed in battle)
Pupienus: 71 (ruled three months with Balbinus, killed by general)
Balbinus: 60 (co-ruled with Pupienus, killed by general) (6 emperors ruled in 238 AD!)
Gordian III: 19 (ruled on 238 AD at age 13, killed in battle or murdered)
Philip the Arab: 45 (assassinated by Decius)
Philip II: 12 (co-ruled with dad, Philip, killed by general)
Decius: 50 (died in battle with the Goths)
Herennius Etruscus: 24 (co-ruled with dad for a month then get killed alongside with dad in the battle with the Goths).
Hostilian: age unknown but bust make him look around late 20s (co-ruled with Trebonianus Gallus, unknown cause of death)
Trebonianus Gallus: 47 (assassinated by usurpers)
Volusianus: 23 (co-ruled with Trebonainus Gallus; assassinated by usurpers)
Aemilius: 43 (ruled for 2 months; murdered by his own soldiers) (253 AD sucks)
Valerian: 64 or 68 (captured by Persians, unknown when he died)
Gallienus: 50 (co-ruled with Valerian, assassinated)
Saloninus: 18 (co-ruled with Gallienius, assassinated)
My bet is Gallienus had Valerian and Saloninus assassinated)
Claudius Gothicus: 56 (illness by plague)
Quintillus: unknown age (3 months in 270, unknown cause of death)
Aurelian: 61 (murdered by general)
Tacitus: 76 (fever or assassination)
Florianus: age unknown (ruled 2 months, assassinated by his own soldiers)
Probus: 50 (killed by his own soldiers)
Carus: 61 (lightning?)
Carinus: age unknown (death unknown)
Numerian: age unknown (co-ruled with dad Carinus, assassinated?)
Diocletian: 61 (one of my favorite emperors, illness or suicide)
Maxiimian: 55 (western Emperor, suicide)
Galerius: 53 (eastern Emperor, gangrene)
Constantius Chlorus: 56 (western emperor, illness)
Valerius Severus: 57 (western emperor, executed or forced suicide)
Constantine: 65 (western Emperor, then full Emperor in 324; illness)
Maxientius: 36 (western Emperor, killed in civil war with Constantine)
Licinius: 59 (western Emperor, executed by Constantine I)
Maximinus Daia: 43 (eastern Emperor, Graves Disease his bust does shows the bulging eyes)
Valerius Valens: age unknown (eastern Emperor, co-ruled with Licinius, executed)
Martinian: age unknown (executed by Constantine)
Constantine II: 24 (died in civil war)
Constans: 30 (western Emperor, assassinated)
Vetranio: age unknown (western emperor for 7 months, natural causes)
Constanius II: 44 (western Emperor then full in 350 AD, illness)
Julian the Apostate: 32 (killed in battle)
Jovian: 34 (natural causes)
Valentinian I: 54 (western Emperor; cerebral aneurysm)
Valens: 50 (eastern Emperor, battled with Goths)
Gratian: 24 (western Emperor, killed by soldiers)
Valentinian II: 21 (co-ruled with dad at 4 then full emperor; suicide or murder)
Theodosius I: 48 (Western Emperor then full Emperor for one year; edema)
Magnus Maximus: 53 (Western Emperor but usurpred by Gratian, executed by Theodosius I)
Victor: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I)
Eugenius: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I)
Honorius: 39 (son of Theodosius I, western Emperor; edema)
Arcadius: 31 (son of Theodosius I, eastern Emperor, natural causes)
Theodosius II: 49 (co-ruled with dad Arcadius at age one til 394 when dad died; hunting accident)
Constantine III: age unknown (co-ruled with Honorius til 409 then full emperor for 2 years, executed by Constantinus III)
Constans II: age unknown (co-ruled with Constantinus III, killed by usurpers )
Constantius III: age unknown (didn't ruled long after he killed everyone, natural causes)
Valentinian III: 36 (western Emperor, assassinated)
Joannes: age unknown (western Emperor, rival of Valentinian III, killed by rivals)
Marcian: 65 (eastern Emperor, gout)
Petronius Maximus: 58 (western Emperor ruled for 3 months before getting killed by a mob in Rome, dang...)
Avitus: 69 (western Emperor, assassinated)
Leo I: 73 (eastern emperor, dysentery)
Majorian: 41 (western Emperor, assassinated)
Libius Severus: age unknown (western Emperor, natural causes or assassinated)
Athemius: 52 (western Emperor, executed by Ricimer)
Olybrius: age unknown (western Emperor for 5-6 months, natural causes)
Glycerius: age unknown( western Emperor, unknown cause of death)
Leo II: 7 (co-ruled with Zeno, assassinated)
Julius Nepos: 45 (western Emperor, Assassinated)
Romulus Augustulus: 47, western emperor, unknown)
Zeno: 66 (reigns twice, illness or dysentery)
Basilicus: age unknown (executed by starvation...dang again)
Marcus: age unknown (co-ruled with Basilicus; executed by starvation)
Anastasius I: 87 (natural causes)
Justin I: 77 (natural causes)
Justinian I: 83 (natural causes)
Thank youu!!
Augustus died at 75 (born in 63 BCE); Tiberius at 77; Claudius at 63, killed by Agrippina, not Agrippa.
Theodosius II wasn't born yet in 394.his reign started in 408 and ended in 450. Your probably thinking of Arcadius and got confused.Doubt that Gallienius would kill his very own son and father.His son being Killed by the Founder of the Short lived Gaulic Empire.Valerian dieing in Persia.Leo II (was Zeno's own son.he most likely died of a illness.)
Quintillus died at 58
what if honorius lived to his 80s ?
Ted Bundy: Im the most famous killer!
Praetorian Guard: *Hold my beer.*
the whole video:
melancholic music
end card:
junglebook
Seeing no last words for trajan and hadrian sadness me
Trajan's last words: "damn, Hadrian, could you please stop banging my wife for a change?, I'm trying to die here!"
Hadrian's last words: "minor, compactor, mellior".
@@LuisAldamiz no way was hadrian a player😂
@@mrmcconko4985 A player in which sense of the word? All I know is that there is a very good conspiracy theory of armchair historians suggesting that Hadrian and Trajan's wife killed Trajan and that they were lovers. Who knows if true or just mad speculation? But "si non é vero, é ben trovatto", you know.
@@LuisAldamiz I mean a player as in like sleeping with someone else wife and I hope that's not true it seems trajan was very found of hadrian and I personally love both of them but history is always filled with these sort of questions and unfortunately well never know but that kind of makes it fun aswell to speculate yano
Also: "It has been suggested that Trajan's young manservant Phaedimus, who died very soon after Trajan, was killed (or killed himself) rather than face awkward questions". >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian#Succession
Also Trajan's adoption of Hadrian was dated one day after Trajan's death! It's a bunch of irregularities... suspicious irregularities, but maybe only affect the issue of succession and does not necessarily mean that Trajan was murdered.
Praetorian Guard every 5 minutes: "The Emperor is dead"
3:31
HEY I CAN ANSWER THAT!
1.Listening to his wife
2. By consequence, himself
Man of culture I see
There is evidence that Romulus Augustulus survived and was in exile. Only a single letter with pension from the monarch that deposed him some 30 years later. It'd be nice to know that not all Emperors, especially a 16 year old, were brutally murdered.
HE was actually like the most lst western Emporers a puppet Ruler so its understandable that he wasnt targeted as a child that has no skill has no dager potecial.
Their depictions get worse and worse as they get closer to us.
They were flourishing in the fields of art and knowledge. As time progressed, these qualities diminished with the quality of the emperors; thus the quality of art and its keen focus disappeared.
You definitely can see a big decline in quality. The eyes of the latter statues look cartoonish. The early carvings were so much better.
If you ever feel bad at your job, remember the praetorian guard had one SIMPLE job, and failed miserably
The statues were probably a deliberate choice to imitate the more simplistic oriental style of statues, though a cultural decline was certainly under way
It's horrifying and sends chills down my spine. The early statues were so realistic and expressive, later it devolves into the faces looking like molten cheese(11:20,13:15), such fall from grace. Many people don't realize that the same could - and will, happen to us.
Your channel is the only thing keeping me sane and entertained thank you and God bless
Augustus' last words, both private and public, are amazing. The publocs ones are of glory, and true. His private ones are touching.
yeah he was a lover and enthusiast of Theater so its understandable that he would include it ,it lets one gaze on his self.
remarkable how Rome endured even with so many short-lived, short reigning or plain incompetent rulers.
Shows the strength and resolve of the average citizen to carry on despite that. They held it all together. In today's world cities riot over a hockey game championship.
The last known words of Emperor Hadrian are in fact this poem he wrote shortly before his death:
« Roving amiable little soul,
Body's companion and guest,
Now descending for parts
Colourless, unbending, and bare
Your usual distractions no more shall be there »
7:13 might have been struck by lighting while on campaign? If that's true, that's super unlucky. But it did save him from a possible assassination like the others so...yay??
Maybe that was the assassination method, who knows?
3:07 that's why he was called the philosopher king. Even in the moment of his own death he was teaching.
Augustus : I found you a city of clay, and left a city of marble
Claudius : I ThINk i SHaT MySElF
"you too child?"
damn that hurt more than i expected
Love this a lot! Thanks for making this and sharing. Have a great day ☺️
“Pay attention only to yourselves, enrich the rich and scorn all others” My dude really hated the plebs
Scummy. The Romans ethically cared nothing for the poor, only the teachings of Jesus Christ instilled that in them.
Disdain for Plebs intensifies
Marcus Aurelius just had a way with words~
Yeah
@@juliusnepos6013 Look who it is, the last actual emperor of the Western Roman Empire
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221
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@@reidparker1848 He had the profile picture of Julius Nepos, the last Western Emperor to be recognized by the Roman Senate when I made that comment.
@@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221
Oh, you had me confused
So far, as of 08/26/2020 FOL uploaded over 148,392 seconds of content which is 106 videos on TH-cam. You can watch it all in 1.72 days or 21 hours if you do it by 2x speed. That is if you do it non-stop. It is outstanding to think that Fire of Learning gone from a small channel with well under 1K subs in mid 2017 up to a staggering 332K subs in 2020. 2016 and 2017 was such a familiar time!
Thank you. See, you are a smart guy. You really need to try focus on positive things, like statistics and data, rather than some of the other things you are interested in which can lead you into a lot of dark places in life.
14:03 Thanks I never knew that
That's sad and intriguing at the same time 😮
Hey, the deaths by "Praetorian guard" accidents did stop with Constantine, wonder what wonderful measures did he implement to stop these :)
"Change the world. My final message."
Praetorian guard: no one can assassinate the emperor if we do it first.
Ancient problems require ancients solutions.
Julius Caesar's last words: "Hello senators, sorry I'm late...What's with the knives?"
Me watching this normally: "How interesting"
Me watching after Dovahkitty: *spits at screen* "BASED"
I just found this channel and I love it. Nice job
THANK YOU FATHER JUSTIN, I WISH I COULD HERE YOUR BEAUTIFUL VOICE BUT NO MATTER, THANK YOU FOR THE BLESSING OF YOUR VIDEOS-Bred the kind🍞🥖🥐, Lord of Brædlandia
Septimius Severus to his sons: be harmonious
Next Emperor in line: *is killed by a brother*
Something seems to suggest they weren't that harmonious afterall.
Sooo... Now I kinda want a video like this with all the byzantine emperors.
It would be filled with *Assassinated* tags
@@TheR00k Certainly, but I was more interested in the last words.
It's all greek to me...
Luis Aldamiz Tiberius III would like a word with you
@@tylerellis9097 - I would also like a sword with him.
Anyhow I had to look him up at Wikipedia and I just realized how fake were those Greek "emperors": how could he call himself "Tiberius III" (TIberios Gamma in his language?) when he should be Tiberius IV (Tiberios Delta?) They are totally dissing Tiberius Nero!!!
He was not even named Tiberius in real life but Apsimar, what seems Germanic.
Always love Vespasian's.
*supernatural diarrhea intesifies*
@@riograndedosulball248 watch your mouth I'm a God now.
Vitellius saying "Yet I was your emperor" is the biggest fuck you to Rome
You forgot some - namely Caligula and Otho. Also, you should've mentioned that Nero's words before he was stabbed - which were probably intended to be his last words until a soldier arrived and attempted to stop the blood flow - were "Qualis artifex pereo" - literally "What an artist [I] die", usually translated as "What an artist dies in me".
1:00 , 1:35
Good point, thank you for mentioning this
Thank you Justin !!
It'd be an interesting curiosity to decipher the meaning of emperors' names. For example Tacitus means "subtle, unspoken" (so no wonder he had no final words, I guess), Pertinax menas "tenacious, obstinate", Commodus is "comfortable, pleasant", etc.
@CipiRipi00 OK, you are of course right. My facepalm is well deserved.
However I read that cognomina were sometimes hereditary (and growingly so as time passed) so, for instance, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, had Scipio as cognomen (already inherited among a branch of the gens Cornelia) and was given the personal agnomen (nickname) Africanus. On the other hand Commodus did not have the same cognomen as his father, which was Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus vs Lucius Aurelius Commodus). So the Aurelii seem to have been a more antiquated family in what regards to naming than the Cornelii, at least in what regards to Commodus, because I quote from Wikipedia what is believed to be the history of his name:
"His name at birth was supposedly Marcus Annius Verus, but some sources assign this name to him upon his father's death and unofficial adoption by his grandfather, upon his coming of age, or at the time of his marriage. He may have been known as Marcus Annius Catilius Severus, at birth or at some point in his youth, or Marcus Catilius Severus Annius Verus. Upon his adoption by Antoninus as heir to the throne, he was known as Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus Caesar and, upon his ascension, he was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus until his death".
It gets quite complicated...
Brilliant thank you. Enjoyed it very much ☺️
This made me sadder than I thought
1:12 When your last words are literally “I pissed/shit myself.”
On Carus being struck by lighting, imagine how frightening and demoralizing that would have been to the troops given the beliefs of the Roman deities, it would have been seen as Jupiter himself killing the emperor
awesome vid! keeping pumping out gold for us!,
however i think you left out the great Maximus Decimus Meridius! (iykyk) lol
Father: "Dont fight eachother my sons"
Son: stabbed by brother
Many of these Roman Emperors have their last words lost in history. Rest in peace.
Everyone else:
Claudius: I think I have shit myself.
Emperor Valentinian had a bad way to go.
Darth Revan the first
Emperor: takes power
Pretorian Guard: And I took that personally
Its so smart you posted this in August.
Praetorian Guard: "Hey emperor, I could really use a day off this weekend."
Emperor: "Nah."
And that's how so many of them got killed by their own guards. Either that, or the guild of millers wasn't giving them true roman bread for true romans.
Last time I was this early Romulus Augustulus was emperor
uuuhmm augustus and Romulus is 2 different people
@@Dimitri88888888 Romulus augustulus was the last roman emperor
@@Dimitri88888888 last emperor of the west that is
@@zettic ah ok that's what you meant nvm you right.
Zettic Don’t disrespect my Mans Julius Nepos the Legitimate last WRE Emperor
8:48 Licinius was executed 30 years before he was born
Augustus: Quite possibly the realest dude to assume the throne. It was all downhill after him.
Eh there were some greats like trajan, and aurelian
I love these ancient word videos!
In the Great Leaders video it said Marcus Aurelius’s last words are unknown but there is a portrait of him giving them
"Finally gonna do something to help the empire."
Honorius, probably
"What do you mean I have a empire to tend to?"
Honorius, five years before his death
Well done on the last bit.🤘SKOL!
Somebody gets entitled as emperor:
Pretorian guard: - "So you have choosen death".
Fun fact: the last Western Roman Emperor was named Romulus, the same name who founded the kingdom of Rome before turning into a Republic then the Empire
Began with a Romulus and fell with a Romulus
I wonder if they did that on purpose lol
"Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard" Dear Birb how often I saw that
Hello fire of learning huge fan of you can you so a documentary on russia it would be a great video or even one on japan see you on your next video
I’m pretty sure we are getting it sometime next year :3, to keep a heads up, and you didn’t hear this from me
"Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
I gotta say that just before I die
keep up the good work
This is very interesting. I wounder how people from the revolutionary war, steampunk era, and WW2 would react to the world today.
Wow. Never been happier to see a video!
I'll never get over the death of Aurelian
Look at how they've massacred my golden boy
Imagine thinking you get to run the biggest empire of the time and you think; "I think this time, I *won't* be assassinated unlike the rest before me!"
Senate: Congratulations, you are now the new Emperor
Emperor: *looking over back* god damnit
Assassins:
I probably would have gotten rid of the Praetorian guard tbh. They are like 33% the cause of early death in Rome.
The Preatorian Guard is really at it with those assassinations