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 Posted 04/08/2012  1:43 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I've put together a list of how the emperors died.
I think I have them all, but I might have left out a few Casears. This is going to be a long list so bare with me.

1. Augustus, old age
2. Tiberius, old age, at 78
3. Caligula, Murdered by guards, 28 years old
4. Claudius, Posioned mushrooms, by wife
5. Nero, suicide on June 9, 68 AD
6. Galba, Murdered
7. Otho, suicide on April 16, 69 AD
8. Vitellius, Murdered by citizens & soldiers, body ripped to shreds.
9. Vespasian, peacefully on June 23, 79 AD
10. Titus, While on a trip
11. Domitian, Murdered
12. Nerva, from a stroke
13. Trajan, Illness
14. Hadrain, natural causes on July 10, 138 AD
15. Antoninus Pius, natural causes
16. Marcus Aurelius, Illness on March 17, 180 AD
17. Commodus, strangled in a bathj tub by Narcissus
18. Pertinax, Murdered by own troops
19. Didius Julianus, Excuted on June 1,193 AD
20. Pescennius Niger, killed
21. Clodius Albinus, suicide
22. Septimus Severus, died at York England age 65
23. Caracalla, murdered
24. Geta, murdered by order of brother Caracalla
25. Macrinus, executed
26. Diadumenianus, executed
27. Elagabalus, murdered on March 11, 222 AD
28. Severus Alexander, murdered
29. Maximinus I, murdered
30. Gordian I, suicide
31. Gordian II, in battle
32. Baldinus, murdered
33. Pupienus, murdered
34. Gordian III, murdered only 19 years old
35. Philip I, in battle or assassinated
36. Philip II, murdered
37. Pacatian, murdered
38. Jotapian, murdered
39. Trajan Decius, in battle
40. Herennius Etruscus, in battle
41. Hostilian, plague
42. Trebonianus Gallus, murdered
43. Volusian, murdered
44. Aemilian, murdered
45. Silbannacus, unknown
46. Uranius Antoninus, unknown
47. Valerian, captured by enemy and killed
48. Valerian II, natural causes
49. Gallienus, murdered by own men
50. Regalianus, in battle or by own men

This is the first fifty I will add the rest in another post.
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 Posted 04/08/2012  1:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OneBowl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
OK, my job is not so bad then.

Great list. Thanks.
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The job security associated with being an emperor is comparible to that of being the head-coach of a professional sports team!!

=> when things take a turn for the worse in professional sports, chants of "fire the coach" can be heard ringing-out in the arenas ... so I'm pretty sure that chants of "murder the emperor" were heard in the ol' Roman days (same result)

... very cool research/list

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I wonder if anyone yelled "murder the emperor!" whenever an emperor visited the Colloseum?
Probably not within earshot of Caligula or the like. You might become the next event.
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I think something came close to that during the Byzantine period, with the NIKA revolt of 532 against Justinian I. The revolt was quited when some 30,000 rioters were killed in the Hippodrome by order of the emperor.
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Here is an interesting account of what happened Elagabalus:

"The next day, as Elagabalus had given orders to arrest those who had taken a leading part in the insurrectionary movement the day before - the rest of the soldiers took advantage of a situation of a prince they so detested; and they killed Elagabalus, together with his mother Soemias, and his principal confidants. His body, after being dragged through the city, was thrown into the Tibur.

Thus perished, on the 11th of March, one of the most cruel, debauched, and shameless wretches, that ever disgraced humanity or polluted a throne, after a reign of three years and nine months, disfigured with every feature of hideous criminality and extravagant folly, not having attained more than the eighteenth year of his age."

(Seth W. Stevenson: 'A Dictionary of Roman Coins')
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04/08/2012 7:40 pm
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 Posted 04/08/2012  9:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobbyhelmet to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great post - interesting to see the causes listed and together
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The revolt was quited when some 30,000 rioters were killed in the Hippodrome by order of the emperor.
With a well-conceived plan I may add.
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The old Romans make the Mafia look like a bunch of Whimps"

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