Got Nero looking like the trailer park boys

Nero looking like he's about to tip his fedora to me

One quick note about Caligula’s end. I am not clear on the overall numbers of the Julio-Claudia’s family that was purged, but it *does* include Caligula, his wife, his daughter, and several key supporters. Over the coming months others would be eliminated, not least due to Agrippina. While the dynasty would survive the end of Nero, it was a steady decline from the time of Caligula on

God dam, you, Maiorianus, and Eastern Roman History need to make a collab haha. Fuck it throw in metatron and you’d have the 4 top Rome KZfaqrs coming together to make a blessed vid. Lmfao love your channel man. It’s my happy place.

Fascinating subject! I always learn so much watching your videos, keep ‘em coming!

Nero looks like he uses hella Reddit.

How would other romans have viewed the neck beard? Mark of status, does it paint Nero as an outsider, or is it mainly to differentiate himself from the main Julio-Claudian dynasty?

Another incredible breakdown of a subject I've always been curious about!

Great episode, great voice, just great. Thanks.

Wonderful work as always! Keep it up!

Dude the under appreciated amount of work to make these videos… Great Job bro!!! 100%

Your videos are really good! I would love if you put in more visual stuff like "Kings and Generals" does with background drawings/paintings too. I know that probably costs a lot of money but if you can sometime in the future I would love it. Please keep making more videos. thank you and have a good one

Thank you for the fascinating Nero content! The reign of Nero is my primary area of research.

Excellent and concise summary. I would love if you did this for more Emperors and maybe statesmen after you are finished with Nero.

A wonderful job of wedding modern historiography's more nuanced views and scepticism of propaganda, and that page-turner literary quality of Suetonius. Cheers dude, looking forward to the next part.

Would love to see a follow up on this looking at Nero’s rule. As you said, there’s such an overwhelmingly negative view of his rule in most historical accounts yet seemingly he became a figure of legend amongst the plebs. It seems quite hard to marry those two perspectives, especially given they both seem not only opposed, but are at extreme ends in terms of strength of conviction. He’s either a massiah-like figure who will one day return to save the day, or a despicable monster - the archetype of an evil tyrant. Pretty crazy when you think about it

Braudel too! Well played.

Make a video about Gaius Terentilius Harsa!

I Claudius in 24 minutes.

I know you mentioned it here, But I would actually greatly appreciate a video discussing the innovations and rule of the Flavian emperors, and in what ways Vespasian and Domitian changed the nature of Roman governmental legitimacy and administration. A lot of people talk about the Julio-Claudians, And the Nervan-Antonine dynasty, But I feel like the Flavians are treated as a bit of a stop gap between these two famous dynasties, So hearing you mention a “Flavian revolution” really interests me. Got any literature or articles to recommend on the subject?

Didn't know the Praetorian purged the Julio-Claudians, any idea how many they killed?

New Queens of The Stone Age album about to be so good #theendisnero #timesnewroman

The man who acquired the most good boy points in history.

I thought you kinda glossed over Messalina. You mentioned she died, but I think it would have been more accurate to say she was executed for treason.

Messalina didn't exactly kill herself. According to Tacitus she was put to death by Narcissus (Claudius's secretary) for alleged adultery and treason. It was an extremely bizarre and murky episode.

Nero in thia pic about to appoint both Scooby and Scrappy to the Senate

Love neck beards🦄

like the format

Nero was the original Neckbeard.

Nero the Burner... 🤔😏

The OG Barbarossa fam.

Aldilà delle fonti che sono sempre poco attendibili e di parte, chi ha condannato Nerone alla _damnatio memoriae_ era quella classe senatoriale e aristocratica che di certo non era stata mai amica di nessun imperatore men che meno di Nerone; che comunque, quest'ultimo, non può essere accusato di aver incendiato Roma, ne di avere incaricato qualcuno a farlo (e certamente, vedendo divampare Roma, non si rallegrava suonando la cetra) e quindi sono solo congetture le sue. Di fatto, nei giorni dell'incendio di Roma Nerone si trovava ad Anzio, nella sua villa in quel luogo; e quando seppe dell'avvenuto incendio, si recò subito a Roma ad approntare assistenza ai romani vittime degli incendi e mettere su quella che noi chiamiamo modernamente protezione civile. Tra le altre cose pare fosse stato, forse un pacifista: nel suo breve periodo di regno non intraprese nessuna guerra significativa. Questo è ciò che so, da non addetto ai lavori.

Umu!

Lucius Domitius Aenobarbus

Cavemen neckbeards are the traits of emperors and the normies hate it. Also Caligula did nothing wrong.

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting Trumpish vibes here from Nero?

lol, he looks like a confederate soldier, long live the south!!

when did roman start looking more white.. because medteranian people are not white. That is a gaul/germanic. Theres even evidence compared Romans non white to Northern Whites and southern blacks. saying roman was the perfect mix of traits. Bias of course but still saying something. Today in the west many latins look very white yet accused of not being so. I see Nero with his copper hair and i'm thinking this is a Gaul/Britian person. Lines have died out however. There use to be red haird Mayans as well. Genetics are odd and interesting. Or this just proves Women lie a lot.