Why would his own officers assassinate the fucking Restorer of the Empire?

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>bored
>under Aurelian

If anything they were overworked lmao

youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdlri6rJGI

Wait what? Link to full story?

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>killing emperor Robin Williams

seriously who does that?

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>when you see it

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Honestly it seems like the Romans actually thought they were invincible and that no external threat was ever going to be powerful enough to destroy them. Thus the only thing they had to worry about is making sure they had enough power inside the empire to reap the benefits. The Roman mindset switched completely around the fall of the republic from loyal citizen and soldier to Rome into gaining power at any cost.

But why is this though? Did traditional Roman morality completely die out with the death of republican institutions.

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It died out well before the republic’s institutions.

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What did Constantine do to the Praetorians?

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>Why not though?

Eternal damnation.

youtube.com/watch?v=NCGk1WimO2I

Disbanded those motherfuckers.

Should have had them all executed and ordered a damnatio memoriae on the whole damned regiment

I think most of them had died at Milvian Bridge anyway

Is it really so difficult to just look up Aurelian?

>However, Aurelian never reached Persia, as he was murdered while waiting in Thrace to cross into Asia Minor. As an administrator, Aurelian had been very strict and handed out severe punishments to corrupt officials or soldiers. A secretary of Aurelian (called Eros byZosimus) had told a lie on a minor issue. In fear of what the Emperor might do, he forged a document listing the names of high officials marked by the emperor for execution and showed it to collaborators. Thenotarius Mucapor and other high-ranking officers of thePraetorian Guard, fearing punishment from the Emperor, murdered him in September 275, inCaenophrurium, Thrace (modern Turkey).

>Aurelian's enemies in the Senate briefly succeeded in passingdamnatio memoriaeon the Emperor, but this was reversed before the end of the year and Aurelian, like his predecessor Claudius II, was deified asDivus Aurelianus

>After the assassination ofAurelian, Tacitus was chosen by theSenateto succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army.[2]This was the last time the Senate elected a Roman Emperor. There was an interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus, and there is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife,Ulpia Severina, ruled in her own right before the election of Tacitus.[6][7]Tacitus was situated atCampaniawhen he heard the news of his election, and he quickly rushed toRome.[8]He decided to re-involve theSenatein some consultative manner in the mechanisms of government[9]and asked the Senate to deify Aurelian, before arresting and executing Aurelian's murderers.

Our sources on the period don't go into much detail, so we may not know if there was a wider conspiracy brewing in the months preceding his death.

Or maybe it was a completely spur of the moment thing, and our sources tell us the complete truth, in which case it was ambition/gfear, as others here have pointed out.

>the only chance for the worship of Sol Invictus to become mainstream was killed because of a phony list

In The History of Rome podcast it is told that in his way to wage war against the Seleucid empire one of Aurelian`s military officers discovered he was going to be executed by the emperor, so to avoid that fate he forged a list of high rank officers that Aurelian supposedly wanted to execute as well

Due to the generals knowing how strict and stern Aurelian was with his words they took it seriously and murdered him to save their own lives. Once they discovered the horrible mistake they had done they tortured and murdered the officer that lied to them, and since Aurelian was such a great, well respected emperor no one wanted to asume his position for fear of being accused of seizing power for himself at the cost of the life of the greatest emperor Rome had seen in decades

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I'm a little confused on Sol Invictus. Was it supposed to become the main deity of the Roman pantheon or outright replace it and become the sole religion in the Roman Empire?

There was a mention that it was so popular at the time that the Christians began to preach against it.

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Who's the unknown? Carus?

"Main" deity, the rest of the gods weren't to be forgotten or looked down upon.You can also think of Sol as a patron god of the Empire as a whole.

He was a hard ass with the troops and people that worked around him. There was a secretary or something that made a mistake and was really worried that he was going to be punished hard by Aurelian.
So to avoid punishment, he drafted a letter condemning many officers to death. He even wrote to look like Aurelian's handwriting.
When the officers saw the """order""" they flipped and kill the emperor without checking if the order was valid.

This is the account Gibbon states in his book.

The period was almost a year and it's thought that his wife ruled during the interregnum

Common in big cities. Blacks remove the height restriction signs on bridges then wait for trucks to get stuck and clean out the back of the trailers

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Cato was right, the degenerate Greeks gave proud Romans a taste of wealth and luxury corrupting the sense of civic duty imbued in the people of Rome.

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Proofs?

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>Understood the importance of establishing a complete autocracy in order to make the Imperial office more distant and unreachable to ambitious generals, using DOMINVS ET DEVS decades before Diocletian
>One of the only emperors in Roman history to even attempt to fix the economy
>The greatest military commander of his age, victorious over a great variety of opponents despite the great challenges of his reign
>Prudent enough to recognise the need to abandon Dacia and begin fortifying cities such as Rome
>Began to use a single deity, in his case Sol Invictus, as a unifying force throughout the empire, long before Constantine used that same idea with Christianity
>Merciful when it was possible, ruthless when it was necessary, and an admirable enemy of bureaucratic corruption

Truly a visionary ruler.

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Niggers REEEEE

Also nice double dubs

>Seleucid Empire

Hmmm

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The sign is clearly still there...

PLEASE CONNY DON'T DO IT I'VE LEARNED MY LESSON

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>Cato was right, the degenerate Greeks gave proud Romans a taste of wealth and luxury corrupting the sense of civic duty imbued in the people of Rome.

It wasn’t the Greeks, it was the Egyptians who corrupted the Romans.

"Damn the Romans!" Leto cried. He spoke it inwardly to his ancestors: "Damn the Romans!" Their laughter drove him from the inward arena. "I don't understand, Lord," Moneo ventured. "That's true. You don't understand. The Romans broadcast the pharaonic disease like grain farmers scattering the seeds of next season's harvest -Caesars, kaisers, tsars, imperators, caseris, palatos . . . damned pharaohs!"

-- Frank Herbert - "God Emperor of Dune" --