A Day in the Life of a Roman Emperor

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@JackRackam Ай бұрын

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@brokenbridge6316 Ай бұрын

Loved this video. You did a great job with Tiberius. He kept on reminding me of Archer from the series "Archer." Which is an utterly hilarious series.

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

@brokenbridge6316 I was definitely channeling that voice actor! He also does Bob from Bob's Burgers, which is very much how I imagine Tiberius in terms of personality

@beavernation57 Ай бұрын

@@JackRackamSo, very bland?

@danielsantiagourtado3430 Ай бұрын

HEY JACK! AMAZING VIDEO! HUGE FAN

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

@@danielsantiagourtado3430 thanks!

@chasemcnab7610 Ай бұрын

Tiberius was the epitome of “smartest man in the room but only because everyone else is an idiot.”

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

Seriously, reading Tacitus' account of Tiberius' life had me feeling so bad for him. On top of being emperor, he had to be a Dad to the entire Senate 😆

@nothisispatrick4644 Ай бұрын

The little fishes account from Suetonius was just some extra salt in the wound, the guy just REALLY wanted to be left alone lmao

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

@@nothisispatrick4644 "Please, stop the drama, I'm going away until you learn to behave yourselves" "That sounds like something a pedophile would say!"

@kat8753 Ай бұрын

Considering how Caligula turned out after spending time on Tiberius Island, you gotta wonder what went on there.

@CliffCardi Ай бұрын

“Everybody’s an idiot except for me.”

@MalikF15 Ай бұрын

Tiberius hated being emperor so much he moved to Capri and ruled the empire from a cliffside-probably so he could jump off if anyone mentioned Senate politics again.

@KroiAlbanoiArbanon Ай бұрын

Most sane move for a roman emperor.

@Mughal_Nationalist12 Ай бұрын

He became Jeffrey epestein

@Dawid.O Ай бұрын

@@Mughal_Nationalist12 whole "fish" thing was nothing more then senators slander against Tiberius

@muscledavis5434 18 күн бұрын

Now his move to Capri makes much more sense for me😂

@Kernog 18 күн бұрын

@@Dawid.O Also, reported by one writer, centuries after the fact. That is not to say the roman elite were all saints, but Ancient Rome was surprisingly pudic, puritan even.

@dlxmarks Ай бұрын

Majority of emperors: "I hate this lousy job." Praetorian guards: "Don't worry. You won't have it for long."

@bol4death Ай бұрын

Thank god Constantine I got rid of these assholes

@archer1949 Ай бұрын

I still don’t know why it took so long for an Emperor to just get rid of the Praetorians, like Constantine finally did.

@ConnorIsAwsome1 Ай бұрын

@@archer1949 They were probably scared to disband the power-hungry bodyguards who are within sword stabbing range.

@anakinskywalker9848 Ай бұрын

@@archer1949 Atleast two reasons: 1: they are your guard to keep you from being de acclaimed by a revolt 2: they will revolt and try to kill you if you try to get rid of them

@Freekymoho Ай бұрын

@@archer1949because for a long time if you even thought about it, you'd quickly get praetorian'd yourself

@AHersheyHere Ай бұрын

“Giving Bodyguards a bonus if they fail their job is not an efficient form of government!”

@wetzel4806 Ай бұрын

*Looks to all the Praetorian guards to come* "The game was rigged from the start."

@emilianohermosilla3996 Ай бұрын

Sound like something Monty Python would say 😆

@samrevlej9331 Ай бұрын

"Aha! Now you see the violence inherent to the system!"

@dawn4383 Ай бұрын

Bit of a contemporary tangent, but my mind jumped to 'Giving health insurance executives bonuses if they deny your claims is not an effective form of healthcare!'. Lots of broken incentive systems throughout history.

@Mary.R. 17 күн бұрын

@@emilianohermosilla3996 Exactly what I thought!!! "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!!!" 🤣

@Xalerdane Ай бұрын

Tiberius’s life in a nutshell: **insert sound of forehead being slammed against the desk in frustration here**

@nicmagtaan1132 Ай бұрын

I kinda wanted to believe his last words was thank you to the person suffocating him with a pillow

@cgt3704 29 күн бұрын

He was just like Moses in the Bible. A man surrounded by idiots

@hundgawf9506 29 күн бұрын

Lmao, it really is hard to be emperor in Rome when you have a bunch of work(and also the praetorian guards and Roman senate) to handle and worry about. How Much of a headache that must've been.

@Crusty_Comrad Ай бұрын

the best thing that can be said about tiberius is that he ruled for over a decade of relative peace without a civil war before or after his reign. A rare feat indeed.

@AmericanRevanchism 29 күн бұрын

And that he didn't waste money and ran an effective fiscal policy leaving the empire in good shape from a fiscal perspective.

@imfinishedgrinding638 24 күн бұрын

Dude was a good emperor no matter how reluctant he was at his job. A shame his successor was so vile and just about one if not the absolute worst emperor Rome ever had(Caligula).

@JackRackam 19 күн бұрын

@@Crusty_Comrad Though I was surprised to see how many armed conflicts came up even in a time of general peace! IIRC Drusus and Germanicus were sent to talk to some border legions in Gaul and Pannonia that started rebelling as soon as Augustus died, I wanna say there was some kind of incident in Africa, maybe an unhappy client king or something, not to mention Germanicus involvement with the tribes of Germania and the campaign to avenge Teutoberg Forest

@Crusty_Comrad 19 күн бұрын

@JackRackam wait for real pannonia rebelled as soon as Augustus died? He just put down a rebellion there during his reign. That's like 30 years apart max.

@Crusty_Comrad 19 күн бұрын

@imfinishedgrinding638 cqligula was romes most depraved empower. But he really didn't interfere with foreign policy too much. In a grand perspective he wasn't as bad as many others.

@prettypic444 Ай бұрын

the more I learn about the roman empire, the more I'm convinced someone needs to make a meticulously researched mockumemtry sitcom set in it (aka roman parks and rec)

@cgt3704 29 күн бұрын

I wonder how a roman Ron Swanson would look like

@JulianJ58 11 күн бұрын

Roman parks and rec + Roman Ron Swanson = gold

@ihavetwofaces 7 күн бұрын

@@cgt3704Marcus Aurelius.

@ezra1735 Ай бұрын

The only man who hated being emperor more than anything else. Also not very happy about divorcing his first wife, he was left depressed and resentful towards Augustus for getting him into this situation. P.s. forgot this, but Tiberius also was very drunk, depressed and miserable by the end of his life, not really caring anymore about whatever stupid crap the senate was doing.

@RazorsharpLT Ай бұрын

"Resentful of Augustus getting him into the situation" Well Tiberius wouldn't BE in that situation if his mommy didn't spend time poisoning every successor Augustus chose until he was the last one left! Tiberius was literally the bottom of the barrel choice for Emperor. He wanted to make Germanicus the new Emperor

@johnrockwell5834 Ай бұрын

Forbidding polygamy in this case being a downside.

@ezra1735 Ай бұрын

@RazorsharpLT He couldn't, he hated his life because he hate that fact that he divorced his first wife, there is literally a historical record that he saw her once again and said to have a longing experience for her because he missed her so and also hated her new husband. While Tiberius was willing to lead the empire, he truly hated his position and yes he was suspicious of his son, but after his death and another kid, he basically left politics to go brood on an island for the rest of his life.

@ezra1735 Ай бұрын

@johnrockwell5834 Any form of polygamy in Rome was a big no no and very frown upon breaking marriage vows.

@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947 Ай бұрын

Caligula would have blushed

@wyatt8315 Ай бұрын

Ancient Rome was basically Hollywood in antiquity

@ilovemesomme Ай бұрын

Except actors were looked down upon and were essentially 2nd class citizens.

@ackkenan2346 Ай бұрын

Actors being respectful is a new

@KroiAlbanoiArbanon Ай бұрын

@@ilovemesommeTrue. But sadly politicians were not.

@Utilizador-gs3lx Ай бұрын

@@ilovemesomme We need to bring that back PLEASE

@danielefabbro822 17 күн бұрын

No it wasn't.

@Jekyllstein_Gray Ай бұрын

Now I want a wacky sitcom about a Roman emperor and some senators.

@AngryHistorian87 Ай бұрын

Domitian might be the perfect fit for this.

@mikitz Ай бұрын

Too bad it's a bit too late for the Roman version of Black Adder. Would've been awesome.

@CollinMcLean Ай бұрын

I've made similar comments about the medieval catholic church. Like "What We Do in the Shadows" but it follows a Pope who was so awful all of Medieval history wrote him out of it, a debaucherous Italian Nobleman, and a duke of the HRE obsessed with MRDR and war

@SantiagoGarza-bg9wp Ай бұрын

@@AngryHistorian87 I'd say Claudius

@shreduntilbed Ай бұрын

I, Claudius is pretty damn good

@marinusvonzilio9628 Ай бұрын

Tiberius was soured towards the emperorship long before he got the job. Augustus mandated that, in order to succeed him, Tiberius had to divorce his wife, Vipsania, and marry Julia, Augustus' daughter, as mentioned in the video. What made this a particularly difficult ask was the fact Tiberius and Vipsania were actually happily married and genuinely in love with each other, plus they had a son. Tiberius was extremely unwilling to agree to this request, but relented in the end. Augustus feared that Tiberius would continue to pursue his first wife even after they divorced and both remarried other people, so he *explicitly* mandated that Tiberius was never to see her again. By contrast, Tiberius was distrustful towards Julia and not fond of her, even before he was forced to marry her. The marriage between Tiberius and Julia was a disaster, the two hated one another, and Julia added insult to injury by sleeping with pretty much everyone in Rome *except* her husband (for which she was eventually exiled by Augustus, and Tiberius was granted a divorce), which explains why the two never had any children. All that said, once Augustus died and Tiberius became emperor, he never reconciled with his first wife (whom he *did* cast aside in order to ascend the throne, regardless how unwilling or unhappy over that he was). Instead he opted to be... well, extremely and lethally petty, by starving Julia (still in exile imposed by her late father) to death and then by throwing Vipsania's second husband in jail after, for once, abusing the Senate's willingness to follow his slightest whim - the man was tried for treason in the Senate, and unsurprisingly found guilty. Once in jail, Tiberius had him starved to death (something of a pattern). Mind you, he did this 10 years after Vipsania died herself (of natural causes), so he did hold back while she was still alive.

@wildfire9280 29 күн бұрын

Reject reconciliation, embrace revenge

@KingOzzius Ай бұрын

sounds like the senate was just an ancient cross between Ace Attorney and a bad sitcom...

@PokeCastle Ай бұрын

This makes so much sense, I hate it.

@eldorados_lost_searcher Ай бұрын

I want an Armando Iannucci sitcom about the Third Punic War where Cato the Elder ends every statement with, "Cartago delenda est!" to the annoyed groans of everyone around him; and it's made abundantly clear that the Carthaginians are not really a threat, but that the Republic's system is so inept that they almost fail to defeat them anyway. Probably be better than Gladiator ii, at least.

@KingOzzius Ай бұрын

@@eldorados_lost_searcher *laugh track plays*

@tavernburner3066 Ай бұрын

Someone should make a comedy about this.

@Salamon2 Ай бұрын

I am surprised you left out Livia's purported machinations to kill those all in front of Tiberius inheriting. It would have made for a funny joke of: "Mom... but I don't wanna be Emperor--I just wanna be a soldier", with Livia replying, "Mother knows best".

@cgt3704 29 күн бұрын

Yeah, Livia's shenanigans screwed the dynasty

@Cara-39 27 күн бұрын

The stories about Livia came from men that didn't like the power Augustus gave her or her supposed influence on him. There's no evidence that she killed or poisoned anyone and the dynasty's later reputation was due to the emperors and empresses that came after, not her.

@liamjm9278 27 күн бұрын

Probably because they never happened.

@Warmaker01 19 күн бұрын

"The Empire only functioned when someone willing to accept and embrace the dumpster fire which would keep the Empire burning for another 1400 years." Jack, I salute you for saying the Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire was a continuation of what was the Roman Empire.

@patrickblanchette4337 Ай бұрын

So basically, career politicians have sucked since the dawn of written history.

@symmetrymilton4542 Ай бұрын

Assasination speedrun time. Who has the record for shortest term before dying?

@stephenflint3640 Ай бұрын

Probably a dude who didn't even get his name scribbled into a tablet or scroll before getting shish-kabobbed by his Barracks mates by a guy who DID make the timetable before HIS shish kabobbing

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

Gordian II holds the official record. Was proclaimed emperor during the crisis of the third century, died 22 days later

@ezra1735 Ай бұрын

@@JackRackam ohh, that's a record.

@symmetrymilton4542 Ай бұрын

@JackRackam That's...honestly a little sad. Imagine being put into power by your father because of his advanced age, only to die less than a month later...almost makes you wish he had a Netflix documentary.

@usernamesareoverrated2505 Ай бұрын

@@symmetrymilton4542 Gordian II's father, Gordian I., actually outlived him... by some week or so...

@ryanjeffery5716 Ай бұрын

This episode actually puts context into Gladiator 2. The senate in Gladiotor 2 basically did this exact same thing. How on earth did Maximus think these idiots knew what was best for Rome. Made me think that Maximus was the villain we didn't even know we had.

@zenzenulous2243 Ай бұрын

a maximus type fellow as emperor actually has precedent in real life: septimius severus, caracalla, many others. Turns out, being a manly man field commander who only loves campaigning and fighting barbarians doesn't actually make for long term stable rule. The real life Caracalla is the exact type of person that gladiator 1 and 2 suggests would be a perfect emperor and he was quite horrid at the job.

@RABartlett Ай бұрын

I don't think Maximus thought "Rome would be fine", so much as his primary goal was "be left alone", and failing that, it was "kill or at least contradict Commodus".

@Borderose Ай бұрын

Maximus made the mistake of thinking Rome was America, the true main character of the world.

@davidcadieu9238 Ай бұрын

I think you're giving Ridley Scott way too much credit.

@specialnewb9821 29 күн бұрын

@@Borderose good one 😂

@KroiAlbanoiArbanon Ай бұрын

No one deserves a comedy skit more than the roman empire.

@jdkincorporated4577 Ай бұрын

I FLIPPING LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

@karolicker2 Ай бұрын

Freakin' heck you can't say flippin on youtube :o

@jdkincorporated4577 Ай бұрын

@ 🤣😂😆 I needed for folks to know I meant it!

@JordiAran Ай бұрын

It certainly explains why Sejanus pretty much stole the job from Tiberius so easily, Tiberius never wanted this gig in the first place and Sejamus put up with the Senate's nonsense

@ilovemesomme Ай бұрын

Aurelian restored the empire, and yet he was betrayed and died all the same.

@wildfire9280 29 күн бұрын

I believe in fiction this is known as when the antagonist interrupts the main character’s power up.

@Apollo1989V Ай бұрын

Claudius, from my understanding, had some similar qualities to Tiberius. He was pretty involved in the running of the empire and wanted the Senate to start doing some stuff. Even though he been shoved to the side his entire life, he turned out to be hyper competent.

@MatthewTheWanderer Ай бұрын

"Suck up and bicker"... Sounds like the modern U.S. Senate, lol.

@Nathan-lp2iz Ай бұрын

The US was literally based on the Roman Republic so that isn't a bug, it's a feature

@wildfire9280 29 күн бұрын

@@Nathan-lp2iz It’s a bug because there was never supposed to be an “emperor” to suck up to in any capacity including unofficial.

@kingkayfabe5358 19 күн бұрын

The US is just like The Roman Empire in the sense that both pretend to still be a republic and not an empire.

@jm-qs4sv 2 күн бұрын

10:16 Plot twist Tiberius could have easily escaped the smothering, but when he realized that attempting to fix the flaws would require him to deal with the senate more, he just let it happen...😓

@dlxmarks Ай бұрын

It should be mentioned that Sejanus was executed after being condemned by the Senate 6 years before Tiberius' death. His fall from power is not clearly understood but he had become consul and was engaged to Tiberius' (from his dead brother) niece Livilla. Tiberius and/or the Senate probably realized that Sejanus was emperor in all but name and took him out.

@mart6313 Ай бұрын

Jack, you're the best. People will embrace this channel for another 1400 years.

@DrunkenCoward1 Ай бұрын

The Senate Cases remind me of the "Court of the People" from Joe Abercrombie'Age of Madness trilogy. Just people getting pulled in front of the court for random shit - but instead of by nobles, it's by the other side.

@CliffCardi Ай бұрын

Aurelian: “Guys, I fixed the empi-“

@cgt3704 29 күн бұрын

Praetorians: SYKE

@Rocketboy1313 Ай бұрын

The idea that the Senate would just wait to vote for whatever Tiberius wanted reminds me of the Assembly in Russia spending all their time thinking of honorary titles for Catherine the Great who wanted them to brainstorm policy.

@CSLucasEpic Ай бұрын

This is some of the funniest shit I ever heard. And the fact that it is all true makes it even funnier. Its like the early Roman Empire was a freaking sitcom...

@robertkirchner7981 Ай бұрын

I think the closest modern analogy to living in Rome as a prol would be living in Haiti now. Just an endless series of turf wars between gangs, and everybody else just trying to keep their heads low and not get killed.

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

Literally I've got a script in the works that's all about how Rome is just gangs all the way down

@hurremsultanas 28 күн бұрын

'Does anybody in this city ever say anything that isn't either vicious or treasonable?' - George Baker as Tiberius in I Claudius (1976)

@maximumdoomer Ай бұрын

never ask what happened at Capri island....

@ChristAliveForevermore Ай бұрын

Dude I love your videos! I can't stop watching them! You're so witty, you gotta make more!

@lerneanlion Ай бұрын

Roman Imperators/Autokrators who do not wanted their positions: Let's hired someone to take all of the responsibility while I keep the title.

@ShandoGuardian Ай бұрын

Man, I know Tiberius was a terrible Emperor but the more I learn about him the more I relate to him

@AlejandroFlores-vi8tl Ай бұрын

I think any one can relate to being the only sane one in the room

@MatthewTheWanderer Ай бұрын

@@AlejandroFlores-vi8tl I certainly can, lol. Most of my family members are completely batshit insane!

@CollinMcLean Ай бұрын

I'm starting to wonder if it was less "terrible emperor" and more "terrible empire"

@muhammadrifqi7308 Ай бұрын

He was a good roman emperor considering the vast majority of his successors.

@Borderose Ай бұрын

Tiberius is the Squidward of Roman Emperors.

@bazzfromthebackground3696 Ай бұрын

Wooo Rackam vid!

@seagullman87 Ай бұрын

Little disappointed you didn't portray Sejanus as Patrick Stewart with a wig, but I appreciate the recap of the "Emperor Tiberius" arc nonetheless.

@urmo345 19 күн бұрын

The Roman law "provocatio ad Caesarem" gave every Roman citizen right to ask for a direct judgment by the emperor. Some did it often, like Claudius (read, it is fun. He was sometimes smart and fair judge, and sometimes irrational blabbering fool) , some reluctantly, like Tiberius. Even so he put appealers into prison to wait until he had time to be an judge. Which some times took many years ;) However, later emperors did care less about this law.

@EvelynOccult Ай бұрын

4 minutes in and this happens "that sounds fun" *ad starts* BREAK FREE WITH OPERA GX "libo dies for the republic" im using opera gx why is it advertising it to me but that series of events had me laughing XD

@DrVerseAlt Ай бұрын

6:44 Did not expect the Ray Comfort cameo. Dude owes me a banana

@sabergater174 Ай бұрын

Tiberius really hated the job lol, makes you question the conspiracy theory that his mother poisoned all of Augustus successors so she can get him on the throne

@artofthepossible7329 Ай бұрын

Observe all those parents that seek prestige, fame and fortune through their children, even when said child is a legal adult.

@damhnaitcockburn2970 Ай бұрын

Love your comment content, Jack!

@zesty2023 Ай бұрын

Man I'd be good at history if it were taught like this, you sir actually make history entertaining and relatable.

@ethanharding4470 Ай бұрын

Best channel out there

@pietrofassina3400 Сағат бұрын

Amazing video! A suggestion for a future one: The Life and Times of Norodom Sihanouk

@melissacaitlink Ай бұрын

1:03 Oh hey it’s Loepsie!

@sourwinee Ай бұрын

holy crap, wtf? i was just binge watching your roman videos LOLOL

@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing Ай бұрын

Suggestion: please consider covering John lackland

@feartheamish9183 Ай бұрын

Bro dropping episodes super fast

@TheRealRVS Ай бұрын

I bet this is a awsome video

@giladpellaeon1691 Ай бұрын

Harry Turtledove addresses some of the paperwork and drudgery of an emperor's job in his Videssos novels (the empire of Videssos is heavily based on the historical Eastern Roman Empire) especially within Krispos trilogy if I remember correctly.

@helmerdekker2517 11 күн бұрын

You gotta talk about domitian, the way he pissed off the senate is so incedibly funny. He did less purging then his predecessors but his nonviolent means of humiliating senators pissed them off so much they assasinated him and slandered him in the history books for hundreds of years

@TheLadybughug Ай бұрын

Love history with humor! ❤

@z-herb8006 Ай бұрын

6:19 😂😂😂😂 sounds like Tiberius was living roman idocracy

@patrickstewart3446 Ай бұрын

Don’t worry. I’m sure the next emperor will work out just fine and have a long, unremarkable reign. 🐴

@BloodRider1914 Ай бұрын

Tiberius was just a chill guy

@brianaguila6925 Ай бұрын

Dude had everything: loved his 1st wife,had a son otw, won many revolts and good political influence. Too bad fate will derail it for him.

@dacedebeer2697 Ай бұрын

He was not. He was a pedophile. Look up the things Caligula learned from him in Capri. It's some of the most disgusting shit I've ever read.

@MarcusStein-t2z Ай бұрын

@@dacedebeer2697Back then no one give a shit if they like young children or not

@thepro3k_watches656 Ай бұрын

Best video yet beside that one video about the us navy and japan

@emilianohermosilla3996 Ай бұрын

Wow the skits were too good on this one 😂😂

@ScarletRebel96 Ай бұрын

I can't go a day without thinking bout the Roman Empire 😊

@christopherevans2445 Ай бұрын

What, no mention of Tiberius's little fishys?

@JackRackam Ай бұрын

@@christopherevans2445 IIRC that story isn't the most reputable

@christopherevans2445 Ай бұрын

@JackRackam like Suetonius would lie, come on? 😉

@orboakin8074 17 күн бұрын

I am starting to understand why the Roman Republic fell and why SOOOO MANY subsequent emperors had nothing but contempt for the Senate😕

@ilijandarleague 25 күн бұрын

I would love for you to make a video about Acibiades, hes one of the coolest people in history and he gets overlooked in most education. Love the videos ❤️

@OnyxDrakkon Ай бұрын

So let me get this strait for like 2 to 3 decades tiberus had to hire a "caligula light" to govenr rome for him and it work ?!

@state_song_xprt Ай бұрын

8:10 The whole Capri thing is wild, can you imagine if in 2000 years there's a popular brand of juice drink named after Jeffrey Epstein's island?

@thegamingreaper3438 Ай бұрын

Love the videos keep up the good work

@fungelfin Ай бұрын

You forgot to mention how Tiberius was a paranoid weirdo who didn’t even trust his own family, granted his grandson and, later heir was Caligula so can you blame him? He was so scared of getting assassinated which had always been a big problem in Roman politics even at the height of the Republic, that he moved away and became very reclusive which is how Caligula was able to abuse his power back in Rome as Tiberius got older.

@AlejandroKaplan-hr1vi Ай бұрын

The more I learn about Rome the more I feel bad for Tiberius

@warrenschrader7481 Ай бұрын

Who knew that Rome was an Idiocracy?

@comettamer Ай бұрын

I love the gag of how all the senate guys are checked out using the various "system loading..." or "system not working" depictions.

@fenrir4446 Ай бұрын

Tiberius only became emperor due to mother livia augustus wife murdering every other succesor

@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 24 күн бұрын

Stephen Dillane, the brilliant actor who played Stannis Baratheon on Game of Thrones, would be perfect to play Tiberius in a film.

@akechijubeimitsuhide Күн бұрын

Well, according to GRRM Stannis was inspired by Tiberius in I, Claudius, so it would come to full circle.

@Albukhshi Ай бұрын

Truly: Tiberius tristissimus hominum erat....

@polkka7797 Ай бұрын

Makes you realise why Domitian just cut them out of the governing completely. Then they hated him for that and damned his memory.

@ethanbell6762 Ай бұрын

Guys, it's okay! Because that charming Caligula boy succeeded Tiberius! I foresee no negative outcomes from that!

@evershumor1302 Ай бұрын

Fantastic video!

@cnpadds9000 Ай бұрын

If you haven’t watched the BBC’s I, Claudius - you should.

@Т1000-м1и Ай бұрын

Now THAT'S the Roman Empire that I very much support as an analogy for modern day whatever

@mra4521 Ай бұрын

I cannot decide who should play Tiberius either the guy who played Stannis or John Cena post-Peacemaker. Whomever plays Tiberius should also play Roboute Guilliman. James Mcavoy should play Sejannis.

@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 24 күн бұрын

Stephen Dillane (Stannis) is the perfect man to play Tiberius.

@PrinceAlhorian 7 күн бұрын

If a senate is such a farce, no wonder Palpatine dissolved the galactic senate at the earliest possible convenience. Sejanus had serious Vader energy.

@danielsantiagourtado3430 Ай бұрын

Hello jack! Love your content ❤❤❤❤

@lionheartfilms793 Ай бұрын

Ah yes the three Jack's of Christmas. Jack Frost, Jack Daniel's, And Jack Rackam.😂

@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing Ай бұрын

Your videos are always great ❤❤❤

@legoman-xn1nt 17 күн бұрын

i would love to see you do a video on either muhhamad ali pasha of egypt thutmose iii

@kingofburnttoast 4 күн бұрын

There’s nothing more amusing than seeing a load of treacherous people driving themselves to madness because they fear that the only person who couldn’t be bothered with their scheming…actually meant it. This is pretty much the greatest example of overthinking I’ve ever heard

@aokhoinguyenang3992 Ай бұрын

Does it include avoiding assassinations?

@MariaRodriguez-dx6sm Ай бұрын

So why Tiberius didn't he just give the job to Germanicus? The guy was competent, had the perfect family, was charismatic as hell, and was super handsome just as a bonus. He could have been his perfect replacement

@MrGksarathy Ай бұрын

You do realize he died, right? Most of his family did soon after.

@MrGksarathy Ай бұрын

You do realize he died, right? Most of his family did soon after. EDIT: Realized this was probably sarcastic.

@bsquared89 Ай бұрын

This video made my morning.

@overworlder Ай бұрын

He needed to invent separation of powers

@specialnewb9821 29 күн бұрын

Important to remember that chroniclers might or might not be accurate for varius reasons. Writing later, bias, the fact that history was non-existent etc. That aside i've always found it interesting that we are closer in mindset to the romans than to the medieval Euros.