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There is Dominion who invites guests to an Imperial banquet - housed in a rome cloaked with black drapes, serving black food, black table-cloths, etc... - then he tals of nothing but death - his guests leave thinking thier to be killed... its all a joke... thus sums up that Emperor. Or Tiberius who lives in his own dr evil stule lair... on capua... ruling with an iron fist. Or the son of a country goat herder who smashes the Jewish revolt of 70Ad and marches back to snatch the Imperial Crown. Or Nero... an his palace... murder of mother, etc Claudius Caligua and his horse - the consul and that mission to collect sea shells Or the revered Augustus - politican and first Imperator... who destroys his co-ruler Marcius Antonius and hunts down Julius Caesars son and has him killed. Suetonius has proved extremely infulentual. His 12 Caesar have become the percieved rulers of Rome. Beyond these mainly mediorce individuals, we tend to forget the GREAT Roman rulers. Such as Nerva who healed the civial war after Dominions death, adopted Trajan, who conqoured modern day Romania and Iraq, who in turn adopted Hadrian, who toured the Empire and refused to conqour any more land, giving back iraq. Then the two an Antonies... Pius Antonius and Marcus Antonius... all in all equalling a hundred years of peace. Or Diocletian who turned the political office of Caesar into a dynastic one - creating the Imperial Monarcy - splitting the Empire into four and retiring to Ravenna. Or Julian the Apostage who tried to turn the clocks back on Christainity and died in modern day Iraq.

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