Aemilianus - The Third Century Emperor #33 Roman History Documentary Series

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Narration by: James O'Neil
Intro: 0:00
Introduction: 0:34
War in Italy: 2:50
Final Thoughts: 4:25
Music:
Hero's Theme - Twin Musicom
Relaxing Roman Music - Aetas Romana
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[@OptimusMaximusNero]

Poor Aemilianus. He sure was willing to become the man who would restore Rome's glory, only to be known in History as "the guy before Valerian" LOL

[@markp44288]

at least his coins are more rare and sought after, so there is that.

[@Transilvanian90]

Well, he did betray the previous emperor so... what goes around comes around lol

[@kingspore5000]

Shortness of all recent episodes makes you realise how insane and different III rd century actually was in comparsion to pax romana, don't you?

[@josephiscancelled2732]

That's a good point.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Yes, that reminded me of one Jewish saying, " May you live in boring times". Pax Romana lasted 2 centuries, relative peace and prosperity. The 3rd century was really packed with action, usually negative things, wars, illness...

[@matheus.bueno47]

We are getting a 1 hour and a half episode on Diocletian then 🤣

[@irenepongarrang7386]

yes little we know about him, until SPQR Historian decided not to put any information about him in thumbnail

[@DMS-pq8]

Some of the episodes last almost as long as some of the Emperors

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

That was definitely a Third Century Emperor!

[@rorschach1985ify]

One of the Roman Emperor's of all time.

[@septimiusseverus343]

"Aemilianus came from an extremely insignificant family, his reign was even more insignificant, and he was slain in the third month." - Eutropius Right, who's next?

[@JustinCage56]

Aemilianus: *Wins a small skirmish against a barbarian hoard* His legions: *picks up laurel crown* You dropped this, King

[@Transilvanian90]

Also his legions: "hey I think that Valerian guy has a bigger army"

[@cam5816]

⁠​⁠@@Transilvanian90his soldiers who literally just gave him the crown three minutes ago: *teleports behind him* “nothing personal, kid”

[@Hilversumborn]

A man with ambition to say the least

[@Transilvanian90]

Aemilianus' legions: "You're now our Emperor" Aemilianus: "Thank you men, with your loyalty we can restore Rome to... * annnd it's gone *

[@saltycreole2673]

The Roman 3rd century version of wack-a-mole, only it was wack-an-Emperor!

[@ancientsitesgirl]

Your videos are great to watch, especially after returning from Rome last week. Regards ✌️❤️

[@ericbaugher]

I gave this one a like. This was an emperor that I did not know about before. They were chewing through emperors pretty fast in those days. Hey keep up the good work.

[@coltonstrickland7750]

The absolute madman is actually doing every single one of these usurpers. Respect to you brother I love it keep it up.

[@robbabcock_]

Terrific video! Rome was such a flurry of activity in the 3rd century.

[@genosiaproduction7091]

Can’t wait for the next episode!

[@kimberlypatton9634]

Well YEAH! I clicked that sub so fast! Great channel,I'm loving it!

[@daanyaaljafri3466]

It's a shame that the primary sources available for the 3ce emperors was so limited.....would be interesting to see what was actually written about these guys...how bad were they or were they actually capable of greater things that were hampered by the times

[@nicbergmanforvermont9515]

Are you going to do Silbannacus?

[@Ion_Petrov]

He was just an usurper in Gaul with only 2 coins as evidence

[@jsoth2675]

Would have been a cool alt history moment if the senate had been given the reins again

[@causantinthescot]

The father of Julius Caesar's reincarnation would ascend to the throne soon...

[@DMS-pq8]

Roman soldiers were nothing if not flexible in their loyalty

[@SNP-1999]

Knowing the sad history of the Roman senate from Augustus' reign onwards, I sincerely doubt that Aemilianus' plan to divide imperial powers between the emperor and the senate would have worked out for long - the main problem being the hubris and ambitions of senators who thought that they alone could rule the empire better than the current emperor. The result wouöd have been the same as actially happened even without this revolutionary idea - Usurpers popping up all over the empire and countless civil wars.

[@diegoaespitia]

ive been lost reading all about ancient peoples and so many of them die such unfortunate deaths, killed by their own men or conspirators only for those mutineers to also be killed by other mutineers

[@KekelMyShekel]

1st hell yeah

[@stephenlennon76]

Algorithm comment

[@youvebeengreeked]

*V...*

[@John-pk9rw]

Why didn’t you mention his Amazigh origins? Like you mentioned that Philip the Arab was an Arab about 100 times in his video even though he was Aramean?

[@fuzzyco.3336]

You got a problem John?

[@lenumide8965]

@@fuzzyco.3336 yes you need to say AMAZIGH 1000 times !!!

[@PC-lu3zf]

Short video fit for talking about a short useless reign.

[@user-fl7zn2tn9q]

Wth was that lol

[@thadtuiol1717]

Will you guys please learn to pronounce 'epitome' correctly? It's "eh·pi·tuh·mee"!

[@John-pk9rw]

Notice how the narrator doesn’t mention Aemilian’s Amazigh origins, as expected. If you go to his video on Philip the Arab (who wasn’t even Arab, he was Aramean), he mentions about 100 times that Philip was an Arab. You couldn’t pass 30 seconds without him mentioning that Philip was an Arab. But fails to even mention once that Aemilian was Amazigh. Is it racism or is it just pure ignorance? Pan Arabism is a racist movement, so if that’s his agenda than he’s very racist. Or is he trying to ignore his ethnicity for people to assume that Aemilian was a European Roman born in African province? Eurocentrism is also a form of racism. Either way he’s racist, and extremely ignorant.

[@ceplio]

Yep I’m sure everyone really cares about this issue, it’s so important and meaningful

[@John-pk9rw]

@@ceplio Stay mad Eurocentric boy who can’t handle the fact that Africans ruled the greatest empire of Europe and would prefer to hide the truth than to face it

[@ceplio]

@@John-pk9rw Got me there last thing I would ever want to admit is that Africans ruled Rome. It's such an unknown and suppressed fact that strikes fear into my soul

[@stayunknown3421]

You are greatly overthinking the videos. Emperor Philip is simply known as 'the Arab' by history, which is why everyone calls him that even though he probably wasn't one. Aemillianus might also be of Lybian origin. Hard to say since this all happened before the great migration period and many people in north africa were romans of latin origins at the time.

[@kipl8444]

@@stayunknown3421 I haven't watched both video's yet, just reading comments but if I quickly do a search on both emperors Aemilianus is merely Aemilianus. (when I search Aemilianus emperor) While when I search on Philip emperor I get Philip the Arab. So from that research of 2 seconds I think that is the case. Though I need to watch both video's . Ngl, I think I just wait until his series is done and then watch it all after each other to get a better idea.