Roman Imperial Succession
Roman Imperial Succession An analysis the Roman imperial succession and the failure to come up with an enduring, consistent system for selecting the next emperor with over 22 genealogical tables and…
Specifikacia Roman Imperial Succession
Roman Imperial Succession
An analysis the Roman imperial succession and the failure to come up with an enduring, consistent system for selecting the next emperor with over 22 genealogical tables and 100 images illustrating the Emperors.John D Grainger analyses the Roman imperial succession, demonstrating that the empire organized by Augustus was fundamentally flawed in the method it used to find emperors. Consequently the Empire went through a series of crises, in which the succession to a previous, usually dead, emperor was the main issue. Augustus' system was a mixture of heredity, senatorial and military influences, and these were generally antagonistic.
These were followed by a period, usually relatively short, The infamous 'Year of the Four Emperors', AD 69, is only the most famous of these crises, which often involved bouts of bloody and destructive civil war, assassinations and purges.