Claudius: Rome’s Accidental Emperor

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@robk1990 3 жыл бұрын

Claudius is my favourite Roman Emperor. He was smart, tenacious and cunning; even Augustus praised him highly for his mind. Everyone underestimated him but he turned out to be the best of his entire family

@wisedragon173 4 жыл бұрын

Claudius playing the fool in order to survive, shows how smart he was. He even managed to survive Caligula's terror regime. In a royal family were assasinating relatives to get rid of rivals was the norm, being shunned and considered an idiot could save your life. Claudius was despised by his own mother because of his physical defects and shyness. He had a tendency to stutter too. However, Suetonius noted that his stuttering and stammering improved pretty noticeably after he became Emperor. Claudius did a pretty good job in being an emperor.

@AtticusAmericanus 4 жыл бұрын

"Filled the little boy's boots." I see what you did there.

@Jimmyinvictus 4 жыл бұрын

Claudius is one of my favorite of the Julio-Claudians. He didn't want the job, and his reign shows the early and rapid rise of the Praetorians as a power to make or break emperors.

@ssiipp7848 3 жыл бұрын

I love Claudius lmao, my guy hid behind a curtain because he didn't want to be emperor but ended up being one of the better emperors.

@Sakraida82 4 жыл бұрын

Claudius has always been one of my favorite emperors. Having to survive two tyrannical paranoid dictators under Tiberius and Caligula, he survives long enough (BY acting simple minded and therefore not a threat) and does it well enough to become an Emperor himself and actually do Rome some good before he gets murdered by Nero's mom.

@sheriffpablo 4 жыл бұрын

"Emperor Butt-Cactus" might be the funniest thing I've heard all year.

@schizoidboy 4 жыл бұрын

Claudius was a historian and when it comes to learning to be a leader history is the best subject you can study because you are essentially learning from the mistakes of others and you can sidestep the pratfalls as they appear. It is just as good as getting genuine experience, but as Maxwell Smart quipped "Experience isn't everything."

@bonefetcherbrimley7740 4 жыл бұрын

Claudius was a cool emperor, his wife done him dirty.

@floopydoopy4345 4 жыл бұрын

Finish the Julio-Claudian dynasty with the man who started it all, Augustus.

@taycarroll1124 4 жыл бұрын

I think he might have been the inspiration for Tyrion Lannister.

@OptimusMaximusNero 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of Claudius, it is truly ironic how Caligula spent much of his life humiliating his disabled uncle Claudius, when the latter obtained when he became emperor (as his sympathetic portrayal of Derek Jacobi in "I, Claudius" and his realistic and deglorified depiction by Richard Kiley in "A.D." showed) everything that his nephew couldn't in life:

@kathyannunzio3294 4 жыл бұрын

"Tiberius was as popular as a rectally inserted cactus" I lost it. The one liners are getting better and more frequent making way for Simon to have yet one more pod-job option (like he needs one) as a stand up comic. But seriously, if he tries to leave Bio or Geo please offer him more money.

@byzantineboi8345 4 жыл бұрын

“such was life for uncle claudius”- Dovahhatty

@NoMoreCrumbs 4 жыл бұрын

I feel really bad for Claudius. Poor kid was hated and mocked by his own family. He was just a child.

@oscarmejia1811 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why but Claudius’ stories makes me want to cry. Here was a man who was routinely abused, mocked, disrespected his entire life, only for him to rise to power, and show his empire morality, kindness and mercy. He did not let resentment, and revenge poison his mind, and genuinely tried his best to make his empire great, and his people happy. In the end his people worshipped him as a god.

@madt1008 4 жыл бұрын

Not just born with a silver spoon in his mouth he was practically born suckling a whole cutlery set 😂

@Drewski-hw1yi 2 жыл бұрын

Augustus showed him kindness and claudius became the first emperor to be worthy of being his successor.

@chucknorris202 4 жыл бұрын

I really like the reign of Claudius. And Claudius as a man. He jumped at his chance when fortune gave it and made himself the greatest man in the world even with his personal handicaps and failings. I didnt remember till this video how bad claudius had it growing up; and in any case I havent read Seneca yet. I have read Cassius Dio.