God tier: Constantine I, Justinian I, Alexios I Shit Tier: Everyone else
Ayden Gray
>Oh Emperor, My Emperor tier Hadrian Majorian Augustus
>Underrated Tier Vespasian Claudius Aurelian Antoninus Pius Tiberius
>Overrated but still good tier Marcus Aurelius Trajan Constantine Severus
>You may be retarded tier Commodus Elagabalus Honorius
>Holy fuck what an asshole tier Caracalla Caligula Maximinus Thrax Galerius
>Died too soon tier Julian the Apostate Alexander Severus Titus
>Misunderstood tier Nero Domitian Constantius III
Joshua Lopez
I forgot >Cabbage Tier Diocletian
Josiah Jones
>forgetting Majorian
Good post, though I don't think Claudius is underrated, his achievements are now recognized and all of that
James Morgan
God Tier: >Basil II
High Tier: >Justinian I >Heraklios >Komenos Dynasty
Died Too Young Tier: > Nikephoros Phokas >John Tizmiskes >Constantine XI
Mid Tier: >Leo III >Maurice >Theophilus >Michael Palaiologos
Bad Tier: >Justinian II >Alexios III Angelos >Michael Doukas
Shit Tier: >Phokas >Alexios IV Angelos >John V Palaiologos/John Kantakouzenos
Jacob Torres
>go to France >go to Nimes >Roman stuff everywhere >see supposedly the most intact Roman temple anywhere >see a tower built in the first century AD >climb all over an arena they still use for concerts >buy Roman coin in gift shop, even has a little certificate of authenticity >dated to 276 AD, has Tetricus II on it >look up Tetricus >this is literally all the information on him >Caius Pius Esuvius Tetricus (also seen as Gaius Pius Esuvius Tetricus but better known in English as Tetricus II) was the son of Tetricus I, Emperor of the Gallic Empire (270-274).
In 273, he was raised to the rank of Caesar,[1] with the title of princeps iuventutis, and in January 274 he started his first consulship, together with his father. After the defeat and deposition of his father in the autumn of 274, he appeared as a prisoner in Aurelian's triumph, but the emperor spared their lives.[2] According to some sources, he had also kept his senatorial rank.[3]
How can a Roman emperor (Gallic emperor if we're being technical) be such a literally who?
Caleb Robinson
>not liking the absolute madman that was Justinian II
Robert Reed
where is romulus augustulus?
Austin Martin
Warming Odoacer's bed
Several literal who's have held power throughout history.
Eli Thomas
To be fair, he was only in power for about a year, and over what was essentially a Gallic rebel state.
Samuel Price
>It's an x did the library of Alexandria episode
Brayden Garcia
One true God tier >Constantine
God tier: >Aurelian >Trajan >Diocletian >Hadrian >Augustus
High tier: >Domitian >Quintillus >Nerva >Antoninus Pius >Marcus Aurelius >Septimus Severus >Alexander Severus >Stilicho
Mid tier: >Titus >Valerian
Bad tier: >Caligula >Maximinus >Tiberius
Shit tier: >Commodus >Elagabalus >Caracalla >Nero
Juan Johnson
True Roman post. Mars smiles upon this poster and Venus will reward him with a qt gf.
Greek barbarian posts. Jupiter shakes his head in consternation.
Christopher Reyes
Don't get anons who think Constantine is overrated. His campaign to make himself sole emperor was glorious and changed world history forever.
Gavin Rogers
The museum of Alexandria was a college though
Anthony Moore
>Trajan >overrated everything else is top
Ian Clark
He is though. Everyone always swoons about muh grand borders, muh dacia. But nobody looks at the long term costs of those campaigns.
Trajans push to Persia because he wanted to play Alexander was so costly, Rome never mounted another major offensive again. His pulling of troops from the Rhine allowed the germanic tribes to get restless. Just so he could claim Persia, which immediately had to be rolled back because Rome didn't have the ability to defend all that territory.
Plus while he was marching, he delegated a great deal of power to provincial governors, power that then had to be reconsolidated by Hadrian.
Trajan was good, but his policies ended up costing Rome and creating problems that Hadrian and Antoninus had to fix.
Benjamin Phillips
Gyro nigger go back to hellas
Owen Parker
Zenobia, Empress of the Palmyrian Empire
Jackson Mitchell
Nero did nothing wrong
Grayson Morris
Dominate emperors > Principate emperors.
tbqh famalam.
Joshua Ward
>>see supposedly the most intact Roman temple anywhere that's the pantheon...
But the Byzantines weren't even real Romans. They weren't located in Rome, and they didn't have them seven hills.
Julian Reed
What the fuck is going on
Owen Rivera
Where the fuck is my boy Claudius?
Joshua Green
Where is Mehmed II in god tier!
Ian Torres
>They weren't located in Rome Neither was the Western Roman government after the third century. They considered Rome itself to be a backwater money sink. Ravenna and Milan were the important western cities.
Also, the Byzantines did regain control of Rome for 200 years, would you consider them Romans just for that period?
It's such a fucking stupid point of view.
Andrew Martin
>Caracalla shit tier
Leo Wood
>Constantine >Diocletian Pick one
Jonathan King
>Diocletian >mid tier
Shit list. Opinions discarded.
Brayden Hughes
Just a reminder that the following cities were considered more important than Rome itself from the 2nd century AD.
I said from the 2nd century. Ravenna for example wasn't important until the 5th century.
Chase Wood
>Caracalla >Shit tier Get out of here pleb
Tyler Thomas
You forgot Honorius's retard brother Arcadius in there
>hurr just let the goths go man lol what's the worst that could happen lol
he even looks like a fag
Cooper Jenkins
>diocletian literally saved the empire and breathed another 100 years of life into it at least >somehow doesn't get near the top on all of these lists
if there was a roman mt. rushmore, diocletian would be the abe lincoln
William Martinez
The problem with Diocletian is that he created a system that only he had the gravitas to keep together. The second he left it all went to shit again.
Then when asked to come back and fix it he was like "fuck you faggots I'm a cabbage farmer now"
But yea he may not be the greatest but he's certainly a great.
Bentley Richardson
his actual reign had its ups and downs, but there's no denying he saved the empire from flying apart at an especially shitty time. that alone makes him high-tier at least.
Aaron Jones
>Salona literally who?
Anthony Stewart
Good taste
Julian Gomez
aye
Gabriel Baker
Heraclius should probably be near the top tiers. Even though he got cucked and lost half of his empire to the Arabs he saved his empire from an worse cucking
Kayden Thomas
>Valerian >mid tier
Asher Fisher
>severus >high tier Considered by gibbon to be the start of the empire's fall
Nathaniel Price
>misunderstood tier >Nero Kekked
Matthew King
Where the fuck is Claudius?
Logan Russell
>Byzantines arn't Roman
Liam Barnes
Caligula was based as fuck. Sure he was shitty in the sense that he was politically incompetent and totally insane. But he was balls to the wall nuts and there is something admirable about that. I mean Caligula named his fucking horse to the senate and declared war on the ocean. You literally cannot find another historical figure who had just the right combination of crazy and power to be as absolutely fucking legendary as Caligula is.
Jeremiah Morris
He was far from nuts. He was just, as stated, a massive asshole.
Naming his favorite horse to the Senate was a joke, namely pointing out just how useless the Senate was. He was telling this to the Senators.
The bit with the ocean was to embarrass the legionaries who refused to take part in an invasion of Britain. Stabbing the ocean was his way of making fun of them and telling them they feared nothing and made them carry a fuck ton of sand and sea shells back to rome as their war loot. Again, just to be an asshole.
The same goes to his fucking other people's wives. Long story short, he wasn't crazy. His bants were just ahead of his time.
Aiden Roberts
It took nearly a couple of minutes on paint, but I made it even better