Rex Romanum
Banned
1.Tiberius
One of Rome's greatest generals, conquering Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily Germania. But he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive, and somber ruler who never really desired to be emperor.
2.Caligula
Initially was loved by many for being the beloved son of the popular Germanicus, the later sources described him as cruel and insane.
3.Nero
While some source potray him as an emperor who was popular with the common Roman people, especially in the East, he is best remembered as a tyrant and an early persecutor of Christians.
4.Commodus
Blamed as an emperor whose reign was the beginning of decline of the Roman Empire, he is well-known as an arrogant and cruel megalomaniac.
5.Valerian
Being the first and the last Roman emperor who captured by the Persians, Valerian was subjected to the greatest insults by his captors.
6.Diocletian
The true savior of the Roman Empire, Diocletian only remembered as a great persecutor of Christians, while much of the credit was go to Constantine I instead.
7.Julian the Apostate
The last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, he hopelessly trying to bring back to its ancient values.
8.Valens
Defeated and killed in famous Battle of Adrianople by the Goths, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Valens' body was never found or given a proper burial.
9.Julius Nepos
The last de facto Western Roman emperor, yet he is less-known than the usurper Romulus Augustulus.
10.Romulus Augustulus
Little more than a child, he acted only as a figurehead for his father, Orestes. Yet his deposition traditionally marks the fall of ancient Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
11.Justinian I
Sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire, which ironically contributed to the empire's decline.
12.Maurice
A prominent general and successful emperor, he was deposed by Phocas, which sparking a devastating war with Persia that would leave both empires helpless in the wake of Muslim invasions.
13.Romanos IV Diogenes
Best remembered by his defeat at Manzikert, his last time in the Anatolian heartland, that he worked so hard to defend, was a public humiliation on a donkey with blinded eyes.
14.Alexios I Komnenos
Best-known for his appealing for help to Pope Urban II against the Seljuks, he unintentionally creating a further conflicts beween Muslims and Christians.
15.Andronikos I Komnenos
Courageous and great general as well as an able politicians, Andronikos was turned into a tyrant in his short reign, and the Byzantine Empire descended into a terror state. In the end his body was torn apart by Constantinople's citizens, literally.
16.Isaac II Angelos
Blinded and imprisoned after his first reign, he was raised to the throne again but unable to meet his obligations to the Crusaders. In the ensuing riots, Isaac himself died by shock.
17.Alexios IV Angelos
Being raised to the throne with the help of the Crusaders, he was unable to give the prize he promised to them. At 1204, the populace of Constantinople imprisoned him and then strangled him to death.
18.Michael VIII Palaiologos
Successfully retaking Constantinople from Latin Empire, he trying to refound the strength of Byzantine Empire. But his effort was more or less, however, as numerous Turkish beyliks had been systematically expanding into Asia Minor.
19.Constantine XI
Famously discarded his purple cloak and led his remaining soldiers in a last charge, when the Ottomans successfully breached the city's walls, he was the last reigning Byzantine emperor as well as a national hero in Greece today.
So...let's vote!
(please apologize my long post...
)
One of Rome's greatest generals, conquering Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily Germania. But he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive, and somber ruler who never really desired to be emperor.
2.Caligula
Initially was loved by many for being the beloved son of the popular Germanicus, the later sources described him as cruel and insane.
3.Nero
While some source potray him as an emperor who was popular with the common Roman people, especially in the East, he is best remembered as a tyrant and an early persecutor of Christians.
4.Commodus
Blamed as an emperor whose reign was the beginning of decline of the Roman Empire, he is well-known as an arrogant and cruel megalomaniac.
5.Valerian
Being the first and the last Roman emperor who captured by the Persians, Valerian was subjected to the greatest insults by his captors.
6.Diocletian
The true savior of the Roman Empire, Diocletian only remembered as a great persecutor of Christians, while much of the credit was go to Constantine I instead.
7.Julian the Apostate
The last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, he hopelessly trying to bring back to its ancient values.
8.Valens
Defeated and killed in famous Battle of Adrianople by the Goths, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Valens' body was never found or given a proper burial.
9.Julius Nepos
The last de facto Western Roman emperor, yet he is less-known than the usurper Romulus Augustulus.
10.Romulus Augustulus
Little more than a child, he acted only as a figurehead for his father, Orestes. Yet his deposition traditionally marks the fall of ancient Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
11.Justinian I
Sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire, which ironically contributed to the empire's decline.
12.Maurice
A prominent general and successful emperor, he was deposed by Phocas, which sparking a devastating war with Persia that would leave both empires helpless in the wake of Muslim invasions.
13.Romanos IV Diogenes
Best remembered by his defeat at Manzikert, his last time in the Anatolian heartland, that he worked so hard to defend, was a public humiliation on a donkey with blinded eyes.
14.Alexios I Komnenos
Best-known for his appealing for help to Pope Urban II against the Seljuks, he unintentionally creating a further conflicts beween Muslims and Christians.
15.Andronikos I Komnenos
Courageous and great general as well as an able politicians, Andronikos was turned into a tyrant in his short reign, and the Byzantine Empire descended into a terror state. In the end his body was torn apart by Constantinople's citizens, literally.
16.Isaac II Angelos
Blinded and imprisoned after his first reign, he was raised to the throne again but unable to meet his obligations to the Crusaders. In the ensuing riots, Isaac himself died by shock.
17.Alexios IV Angelos
Being raised to the throne with the help of the Crusaders, he was unable to give the prize he promised to them. At 1204, the populace of Constantinople imprisoned him and then strangled him to death.
18.Michael VIII Palaiologos
Successfully retaking Constantinople from Latin Empire, he trying to refound the strength of Byzantine Empire. But his effort was more or less, however, as numerous Turkish beyliks had been systematically expanding into Asia Minor.
19.Constantine XI
Famously discarded his purple cloak and led his remaining soldiers in a last charge, when the Ottomans successfully breached the city's walls, he was the last reigning Byzantine emperor as well as a national hero in Greece today.
So...let's vote!
(please apologize my long post...
)
