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 Roman Emperors
| Which Roman Emperor(around the turn of the 300's AD)divided the empire in half in an attempt to better administer the empire? | Later Roman Emperors
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Caligula was assassinated. Gaius (Caligula) was murdered by his own Praetorian guard.
Domitian. Titus, his older brother, had already been emperor.
Otho. This was during the Year of the Four Emperors.
| Domitian shared a consulship with which prospective emperor in AD90? | Roman Emperors
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Nerva. Although this was supposed to be reward for helping Domitian avoid a plot against him, Domitian began to distrust Nerva later in his reign.
| Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus became which emperor in later life? | Roman Emperors
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Nero. He is believed to have changed his name at the insistence of his mother, Agrippina.
| Augustus' daughter, known as Julia the Elder, married who? | Roman Emperors
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Tiberius. Augustus banished her in 2BC because of her allegedly unbecoming behaviour.
| In the Year of the Four Emperors, who were the four emperors? | Roman Emperors
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Galba, Otho, Vitellius,Vespasian. Year of the Four Emperors was AD 69.
| Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus is better known as? | Roman Emperors
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Caligula. 'Caliga' are the army sandals or boots worn by Roman soldiers with whom his family campaigned during the early years of his life.
| The maternal grandmother of Augustus was the sister-in-law of who? | Roman Emperors
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Julius Caesar. Augustus' father had been married to Atia, sister of Caesar's wife.
Maximinus Thrax. Maximinus Thrax was the first barbarian emperor, ruling from 235-238 A.D.
| Who was the emperor that banned paganism and popularized the universal concept of the "trinity" in 359? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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Constantius. The son of Constantine, he opened the Hagia Sophia during his reign (the first version of the great church in Istanbul).
| Who was the emperor, hiding in his marsh castle in Ravenna, that said "no" in sending troops to assist Theodosius as he lost his head? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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Honorarius. Rome fell under the reign of Honorarius (410) while he hid away in Ravenna. On the positive side, he was the emperor who cancelled the gladiatorial games...
Julian. He was said to be stolid, modest and uncommonly ugly. Never washed or bathed and lived like a slob, but was as courageous and virtuous as befit an emperor. With a well-discplined army Julian led them to conquer the Persians, reaching Ctesiphon and almost subduing the Persians until he was said to have been struck by an arrow from his own army.
| Who was the captured daughter of Theodosius, managing a marriage between the great Goth king, Athnaulf, to ensure an alliance between the so called barbarians and the Roman empire? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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| He was the first and only African emperor of Rome...a member of the soldiery he rose in the ranks and became a favorite of Commodus. He attained the rank of Princeps after the usurper Pertinax was killed...what was his name? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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Septimius Severus. The Severan dynasty was begun under his reign and the rank of Princeps was passed on to his son Caracalla. Septimius was a decent emperor but had to deal with challenges from both Clodius Albinus and Pescinus Niger...both of whom he defeated.
| Who was the greedy emperor that obtained a vast fortune from blackmail, enabling him to make a capital city, humbly named after himself in the East? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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Constantine. Once in power he executed his son Crispus and wife Faustus. Constantine gained complete power and reunited the empire under his supreme control; surely his rule was the undoing of the empire...particularly his creation of the eastern capital at Constantinople which undermined the grandeur of Rome.
| Who was the Roman emperor, calling himself Jovius, that divided the empire to the East and West with 4 emperors, 2 junior and 2 senior? | Peculiar Roman Emperors
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Diocletian. Diocletian was such an unusual emperor, he deserves to be twice mentioned. It is said that Diocletian appeared in public with his face painted a white-pale shade, so that he would appear spectre-like. Occasionally he would disappear in a puff of smoke through a trap door, excercising his apparent divinity.
| This emperor ruled the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5th century. His wife hated him, so when he fell into a coma (as he had done several times before), she hurried to bury him in a sarcophagus, forbidding everyone to enter the burial room. Every day she went and listened to the weakening voice of her now dying husband. And then there was silence in the sarcophagus. Who was the unfortunate man? (He shares the name of two well known philosophers). | Roman Emperors
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Zeno. There was only one philosopher named Plato (actually his name was Aristocles, Plato being his nickname) and no emperor by that name. However, there were two philosophical Zeno's (Zeno of Citium and Zeno of Elea) and one emperor named Zeno (althought he was born a barbarian with the name Tarasicodissa! I kid you not) Anthemius and Romulus Augustulus were emperors of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus actually being the last one of his kind. He was 7 years old, when a Gothic warlord deposed him and seized control over Italy. Hope you enjoyed the quiz.
| This man was no official emperor: in 366 he rebelled and tried to seize power. The real emperor defeated him and his army, tied him to two bent trees and then... let go of the trees. The unfortunate rebel was torn in two pieces... Can you name this man, who shares his name with a historian of the 5th century? | Roman Emperors
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Procopius. You didn't really believe there was anyone named Bombasticus in Rome, did you? Valens had Procopius killed because of his rebellion. Procopius' generals were merely sawn in pieces. After Valens had died, Theodosius became the last emperor of the unified empire.
| This little known emperor died very oddly. He hated the sun and was therefore carried around in a completely closed sedan. He must have died suddenly but nobody noticed at first. Only when his decomposing body started to smell did his soldiers dare to open the door. Too late to help obviously. Who was this emperor (d. 284 AD)? | Roman Emperors
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Numerianus. Diocletianus, Constantinus and Theodosius are generally considered well-known emperors. Numerianus was the one. He had not yet chosen a successor, so his general Dicoletianus (real Greek name: Diokles) took the opportunity. He accused the dead emperor's brother-in-law of murder and instantly executed the poor, innocent fellow. After that everyone accepted him as the new emperor. Guess why!
| This emperor was strangled on December 31st 192 AD. His mistress had hired a gladiator and the gladiator, a certain Narcissus, did his job efficiently. The emperor was the bad guy in the movie 'Gladiator'. (How ironic!) Who was he? | Roman Emperors
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Commodus. Commodus was our beloved monster. According to the movie 'Gladiator' he strangled his own father Marcus Aurelius, but that's just fiction. But in the end his opponents got at him. Narcissus killed him while he was in his bath. Not surprising, really: he used to take up to eight showers a day. Verus was his uncle and Pertinax was a rebellious general of those days.
| He was one of four emperors in one year (68 AD). The mob in Rome absolutely disliked him. When a new candidate for the throne approached Rome, the mob captured the emperor. They took him to the Forum, tortured him, drove a hook through his neck and dragged him to the river Tiber. Who was he? | Roman Emperors
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Vitellius. Galba was the emperor who succeeded Nero. He was killed by Otho. Otho committed suicide to avoid a battle against Vitellius. When Vespasianus showed up near Rome, the terrified Vitellius hid in his office, behind his own mattress. To no great success ...
| This emperor's real name was Gaius. Initially he was very popular because of his father's reputation as a general. In the end everyone hated him. He was stabbed to death in a theater and his body was flushed through the main sewer of Rome. By what nickname is Gaius generally known? | Roman Emperors
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Caligula. Gaius Iulius Caesar, despite the last part of his name, never was an emperor. He tried though, but 26 or 27 stabs (I'll not start that discussion again) ended his ambitions. Augustus may have been poisoned by his dear wife Livia. Tiberius may have been strangled by his successor Caligula, although it's probably just a rumour. Caligula was the man you were looking for. Interestingly, his name refers to a little boot of a soldier.
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