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The Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69, was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, caused by the assassination of Nero during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. The period witnessed several rebellions and claimants, with shifting allegiances and...

Historically, Claudius was proclaimed Emperor after the assassination of Caligula and murder of his wife and daughter, having been found hiding behind a curtain by elements of the Praetorian Guards before being proclaimed Emperor. However, what if Claudius had been killed during the...

If a foreign 19 year old young woman with the following features settled in the ancient pagan Roman Empire, how will the ancient pagan Romans react and interact with her? These are the following features of the foreign 19 year old young woman: 1. She is pale skinned, caucasoid, has built a body...

Nymphidius Sabinus was a Praetorian prefect who played a crucial role in the downfall of Emperor Nero by persuading the Praetorian Guard to desert him. Between Nero's death and Galba's arrival in Rome, he tried to take the throne for himself. Unfortunately for him, nobody took his claim...

Nero, last Julio-Claudian emperor allegedly had a daughter in 63 AC with his second wife, Poppea whom he named Claudia Augusta and who died shortly after the birth. Now, what if the child was born as a healthy, surviving boy? Probably he'd end up named Claudius Augustus as well, in honor of...

So i've been studying late Roman history and came across Emperors Nero, infamous for his multiple barbarities, and Claudius, murdered or mysteriously killed in 54 AD, and I was wondering what would happen had he not chosen to adopt Nero.

What if Nero had never become Roman emperor? How might history have been altered?

What if the Pisonian conspiracy of 65 CE hadn't been betrayed? How would an earlier death of Nero, one by assassination, have affected things?

In the long span of Roman history, the average length of an emperor's reign was something like seven years. This average only includes the emperors generally regarded as "legitimate" by historians. When factoring the total number of men who have, at one time or another, claimed the imperial...

"Britannicus was now of age — Britannicus, the genuine and deserving stock to succeed to his father's power, which an interloping heir by adoption now exercised in virtue of the iniquities of his mother..." Annals, Book XIII by Tacitus (with further apologies to Vidal, Brass and...