Alcsentre Calanice
Gone Fishin'
Make the Roman emperors and senate accept the pinciple of adoption and designation of the imperial successor to avoid civil wars and emperors like Commodus or Gaius.
AHC: Lasting Adoptive Dynasty
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But it was accepted, and not only in Antonine dynasty. Nero, for instance, was adopted by his predecessor.
And adoption wasn't seen as an alternative to dynastic succession, far from it : it was seen as strengthening the succesion by associating it to a father/son inheritency. If a son could succeed, it was all the better for Romans.
The problem of the ultimate failure of Antonine is more to be searched in the contradiction between the army and civilian power.
And adoption wasn't seen as an alternative to dynastic succession, far from it : it was seen as strengthening the succesion by associating it to a father/son inheritency. If a son could succeed, it was all the better for Romans.
The problem of the ultimate failure of Antonine is more to be searched in the contradiction between the army and civilian power.
Alcsentre Calanice
Gone Fishin'
No sons as succesors (sons are often incompetent and cruel), but the best of the citizens.
Ultimate Paragon
Banned
I'm not entirely sure Nero counts, considering he was Claudius's stepson and grandnephew.
...Man, the Julio-Claudian Dynasty had issues.
Except that's an Holywoodian version with little to none historical reality.
Commodus was hardly as cruel and incompetent than Gladiator describes, and often described in contemporary texts as skilled.
And, as I try to point in this posts, succession was never made for "the best", but according the "virtus" associated with a line, with adoption being seen as an alternative to direct inheritance.
It's ignoring that Antonian successors had themselves many familial ties with their predecessors.
Hadrianus was the nepos, more or less blurry term for close and younger relative, of Trajanus (he was actually his closer male relative)