/lit/ - Literature

>>6333485
>Septimius Severus
>not Marcus Aurelius

>>6333485

I personally think Augustus was the best Roman Empire

>>6333845
Aurelius fucked things up by dying and leaving Commodus in charge. If the Romans had crushed the tribes at the Rhine instead of signing a peace treaty with them, Rome would have endured another five hundred years.

>>6333854
Rome wasn't defeated by the tribes of the Rhine, it was defeated by the whole barbarian population of eastern Europe all the way till the steppes pushing west. Besides, short of genociding them, Rome didn't have the manpower enough to waste it on occupying worthless and extremely belligerent germanic land.

Is Julian the Trotsky of Roman emperors?

>>6333485
>Septimius Severus is the best Roman Emperor
Ftfy

>>6333845
That's not Marcus Aurelius.
I think I have bust this sketch is based on, but I'm not sure of the name. Pictured is Marcus.

>>6334031
I don't know about that comparison, but he was pretty damn cool

>>6334080
>I think I have bust this sketch is based on, but I'm not sure of the name.
Caracalla.

>>6334080
>>6334098

I got the pic from here: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Lo-Ma/Marcus-Aurelius.html
I thought it wasn't Aurelius at first, but I just ran with it.

>implying not Trajan

You'll cowards don't even build walls

>>6334098


>disdainforplebs.jpg

>>6334158
Only cowards build walls.
Soldiers are the walls of the brave.

>>6334158
You only build walls when you're tired of fighting

>>6334197
>>6334185
see
>>6333882

>>6334185
>>6334197
Only incompetents don't build walls

>>6334220
>temporary, quickly built wooden walls = permanent stone walls to keep out barbarians

>>6333485
The Roman Empire was the best Roman Empire

>>6334098
There ya go.

>>6334164
And would you like a football player to run your empire?

Ivan the Terrible is the best Russia.

François Ier is the best Kingdom of France.

Pikachu is the best Pokemon Anime.

Haile Selassie is the best African Continent.

George Washington is the best United States of America

Jesus Christ is the best Christianity

>>6334302
>not Articuno
Traitor to the working class tbh

>>6334334
>violent unionfag is stalking me on several threads at the same time

Why does it feel good ?

>>6334332
I chuckled.

>>6334353
>computer chatter
>violence

>>6334353
>Why does it feel good ?
For some, being called retard on the internet is the only love they get.

The best was Hadrian, owning jews hard before hitler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian

>A tradition based on the Historia Augusta suggests that tensions grew higher when Hadrian abolished circumcision (brit milah),which he, a Hellenist, viewed as mutilation

>Hadrian's army eventually put down the rebellion in 135. According to Cassius Dio, overall war operations in the land of Judea left some 580,000 Jews killed, and 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed to the ground. The most famous battle took place in Beitar, a fortified city 10 km. southwest of Jerusalem. The city only fell after a lengthy siege of three and a half years, at which time Hadrian prohibited the Jews from burying their dead. They were eventually afforded burial when Antoninus (Pius) succeeded Hadrian as Roman Emperor

>He attempted to root out Judaism, which he saw as the cause of continuous rebellions, prohibited the Torah law, the Hebrew calendar and executed Judaic scholars (see Ten Martyrs). The sacred scroll was ceremonially burned on the Temple Mount. In an attempt to erase the memory of Judaea, he renamed the province Syria Palaestina (after the Philistines), and Jews were barred from entering its rededicated capital. When Jewish sources mention Hadrian it is always with the epitaph "may his bones be crushed" (שחיק עצמות or שחיק טמיא, the Aramaic equivalent[121]), an expression never used even with respect to Vespasian or Titus who destroyed the Second Temple.

>Rabbinic literature is critical of his foreign policy, particularly that of religious intolerance concerning the Jews. Indeed, his policies were viewed as an attack on the religious freedom of Torah law practice. Most of the stories related by the Sages of Israel reflect a two-faced approach to tolerance of the Jewish people. In one story he punishes a Jew who failed to greet him, and then punishes another Jew who wished him well. When asked what the logic was for his punishing both men, he replied: "You wish to give me advice on how to kill my enemies?"

Bane is the best Dark Knight rises

Augustus >>>> meme emperors.

Was the empire inevitable, /lit/? Is there anything the Romans could have done to maintain their republic?

>>6336355
Caesar's takeover was fairly contingent. If he had had less success in Gaul and Britain, he wouldn't have had the prestige he needed to completely wreck the political establishment. On the other hand, the vitality of the Republic's institution was clearly slipping even by the early 1st century, and the use of dictatorships probably would have expanded in any case. In particular, t seems that elections were becoming more contentious and factional disputes were becoming more bitter over time, and the expansion of the Empire and the vast private fortunes produced as a result were a destabilizing force.