Roman Emperors Portrayed in Memes - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- #rome #romanempire #memes
Quick historical explanations for the specific memes
1) Caesar - waged war against the Senate of Rome
2) Augustus - he was a genius (duh)
3) Tiberius - he spent his last years in solitude on the island of Samos
4) Caligula - allegedly he let ordered his soldiers to attack a sea to harm Neptune, god of the sea
5) Claudius - probably suffered from cerebral palsy
6) Nero - ordered Rome to be set on fire to gain musical inspiration (fake)
7) Galba - reigned for 6 months
8) Otho - reigned for 3 months
9) Vitellius - was really fat (and reigned for 6 months)
10) Vespasian - allegedly he was very greedy
11) Titus - crushed the Jewish rebellion in the year 70 AD
12) Domitian - just another cruel Emperor
13) Nerva - adopoted Trajan to prevent civil war
14) Trajan - during his reign Rome reached its maximum territorial extent
15) Hadrian - was gay
16) Antonius Pius - one of the reasons he was called Pius was that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings
17) Marcus Aurelius - a Stoic philosopher
18) Commodus - was not a Stoic philisopher
19) Pertinax - was killed by Praetorians while trying to flee from them
20) Didius Iulianus - offered Praetorians huge ammount of money to be declared Emperor and he didnt have them which got him killed.
21) Pescenius Niger - just that he has a funny name (heh, Pescennius)
22) Septimius Severus - recently heavily discussed that he was black (he wasnt) because he was born in Africa
23) Caracalla - massacred tens of thousands people in Alexandria, allegedly because they mocked him
24) Macrinus - killed Caracalla while he was on a toilet
25) Heliogabalus (Gabalus) - was an insane degenerate piece of filth
26) Severus Alexander - heavily relied on his mother during his reign
27) Maximinus Thrax - was a huge 2,6 meters (8 ft) tall brute
28) Balbinus, Pupienus, Gordian I., Gordian II. - all killed in their attempt to depose Maximian
29) Gordianus III., Philip the Arab - Gordian was killed by Philip during his Persian campaign
30) Trebonianus Gallus, Decius - Gallus refused to help Decius in the battle of Abritus which let to Decius death (or Gallus just couldnt make it in time)
31) Valerian - was captured by Persians in 260, his fate is unknown
32) Gallienus, Claudius - during reign of Gallienus the Crisis of the Third Century erupted, the Empire was partially saved by Claudius
Caligula: Look at my horse my horse is amazing
Give it a lick!
give it a lick
@@morgoth615 it tastes like raisins!
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Have a stroke of it's mane, it turns into a plane
The Caligula meme has lots of layers, like the man himself. And, coincidentally, ogres.
THERE GOES MY WATCH HIM AS HE
Hadrian should be the Jew-hunter from Inglourious Basterds
Oh, yessssss. That'd be so much better
Jewish War 2: This time it's personal
Iudea Delenda Est 2: Electric Boogaloo
Well... Living to see at least two of the three revolts would do that to ya.
@@Killzoneguy117 3*
How dare you call Domitian-sama "just another cruel emperor"???
Titus, get the cross!
the Caesar one was spot on, love it
Where is my damn Aurelian part! GIVE IT HERE!
@@TominusMaximus i saw that one, but i need another one m8
@@TominusMaximus DO YOU THINK AURELIAN DESERVES ONLY ONE SEPARATE VIDEO? PRAISE THE SUN!
I feel bad for Pertinax, he did everything to put the Empire back on its feet and got backstabed by the pr*torian guard.
Victoria Yeah and the worst thing is that he started off as a grammar instructor and managed to work his way up and become emperor. All of that hard work thrown away in a matter of weeks.
It was mainly the praetorians. All of the generals respected him, and the senate as well. You have to be pretty good if you can get the senate and the military to agree.
Ahhh... this is one of the comments that appeared in the Praetorian guard video...
Ikr
"I love destroying lives" lmao, so right and wrong at the same time
@Deathcoldan Not the lives of the senators
@@skimaskthetapgod8126 Who gives a fuck about the Senate amirite
@@miguelpereira9859 fuck the senate adn teh horse they rode in
Gallienvs didn't do "nothing", he defeated countless barbarians and usurpers while dealing with the height of the Crisis, including the disaster at Edessa, the Cyprian Plague, and hyperinflation.
Because Claudius, who arranged his death is the one talking so it makes sense he would say he didn't do anything
@@miguelpereira9859 did he actually arrange the assasination?
@@gewisse_6786 I'm pretty sure yes
@Not so Sneaky stabba Modern scholars seem convinced that he was involved in the assassination:
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/who-murdered-gallienus/2B48700FFE47B8DD0C76D1F878EF7A21
@@gewisse_6786 supposedly it was Claudius and other high ranking Illyrian officers (including Aurelian) that assassinated Gallienus.
Marcus Aurelius - Emperor 161-180
Commodus - Emperor 180 -192
Lucius Verus : Am I a joke to you?
meanwhile to severus and niger
clodius albinus : am i a joke to you.
I lost it at Hadrian
Yea😂
Y are u gae?
Hadrian's should have been the opening scene of Inglorius Basterds lol
Caesar?? An emperor???
*𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗶𝗸𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲*
Dictator is basically an emperor without a crown.
technically Augustus and several others weren't "emperor" either, they had a ton of different titles through the ages.
@@herz4217 what you mean Augustus was the first emperor lol
@@jabronisauce6833 Octavian being considered the first emperor is more of a historical convention than a hard fact, mostly because he finished the late Republic civil wars. After winning it and monopolizing power, Octavian did his very best to preserve the appearance of a Republic, make the Senate happy, but at the same being the final arbiter in the most important issues, and having enough money to fund anything ever needed.
But no one ever told the common citizens: "Hey, we are no longer a Republic and now we're in an Empire!". That's something historians say for people today, but it's not how people back then viewed things.
Vitellus " I eat because I'm depressed, I'm fat because I eat "
You did Domitian dirty with this. He was a great emperor for the empire, he just didn't bother or care about the pretense with the senate.
Who gives a shit what the S*nate thinks lmao
Everyone: It's so big!
Trajan: Yup ^_^
Q: How to get free N-word pass
A: Name your child after 21st emperor of Rome
Now this is pure quality content
Lol
Caracalla: hey everybody today my brother pushed me so im starting a kickstarter to put him down
*shows picture of Geta*
Caracalla: the benefits of killing him would be I would get pushed way less
@Cameron Caracalla's brother, who he killed in the arms of their mother
Cameron
It’s a real crazy story that perfectly demonstrates just how nuts/cruel Caracalla was. From what I remember, Caracalla and Geta were brothers, and when their father died, he wanted them to both be co-emperors. They both hated each other, so their mother brought them together for a meeting at her home to work things out. As they were talking, a group of armed men burst in and just straight up stabbed Geta to death, right in front of his mother. I can’t remember for certain, but I think there’s even rumors of Caracalla laughing at his dying brother. Either way, Caracalla went on to become a tyrannical murderer during his brief reign.
geta did nothing wrong
Caracalla did die in piss
Rest in Piss, Caracalla
I'm glad you say in your explanation that severus wasn't actually black, it's a funny joke but some people take it seriously 🙄
How is it a joke? He WASN’T black.
@@freckleheckler6311 that's what I'm saying?
@@comedyaddict123 You wanna see archeological evidence.
The bust of Maximinus Thrax radiates such masculine energy that it could feasibly boil water, and thus be used to power a turbine and generate electricity.
Well, he was an 8 foot beast of a man. The OG gigachad
@@hectortellezgarcia1155 First emperor not to be born a noble. Just worked his way up from grunt to ruling the empire.
According to the Historia Augusta, a historical source as much reliable as Gladiator and Dovahatty, Thrax consumed 25 liters of wine and ate 13kg of meat every day. This guy exuded manliness wherever he went.
@@4ndr3c3s4r1n0
Believe it or not, the Historia Augusta is all true.
02:05 I LAUGHED TO DEATH.
Yeeees i die too
Who is she by the way
@@456123ib Chloe Brooks
When you do part 2 you better give my boy Majorian a good one!
Seconded
FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT RICIMER IS LITERALLY THE FINAL REASON WHY WEST ROME COLLAPSED
majorian is overrated
2:52 For anyone wondering, Septimus Severus was not black he was half punic and half italian.
Punics were not black, they were in north africa(before the arab conquest) and were Caucasian, just because you are darker does not mean you are black, his facial structure isn't even black.
Thank you
Taariq Nasheed wants to know your location.
Adding that the romans were Multicultural, there were a large percent of people in North Africa and Middle East that you would consider black.
WE
@@hiddenperson3696 They traded with sub Saharan people's through the Nile so it's not unreasonable to assume that at least some black people lived in the Roman empire, however Septimius Severus doesn't look black at all lol
Macrinus killing Caracalla was perfect
Eggman: "I'M GONNA GO HIGHER, I'M PISSING ON THE MOON"
Vespasian: "OH I DONT THINK SO"
Vespasian "i tax you for peeling"
That trajan got me crying..
severus alexander was amazing!
Mommy
Mama
@@a.h.tvideomapping4293 not so large mommy what looks like in a first time
@@raresmincan634 no
A good emperor, unlucky
At 3:42 Stewie as Severus Alexander totally makes sense.
Severus Alexander Is underrated
glad you wrote “fake” to Nero burning Rome ahah as I watched without reading that comment, I was perplexed...
This man literally went on PH to get that clip at 2:00. What a legend
Sauce?
"Italian guy fucks Parthia and all of the known world"
@@dovalek69420 Hispanic*
Oh yea i forgot he was from hispania ty
@@jovee6155 lamp sauce
the Vespasianus one got me good
Piss Tax
Caracalla was a mad lad. Change my mind
2:00 mine is like 1453 :(
Smae bro smae
Subbed for Aurelien!
Gotta say, you missed a big opportunity with Valerian. There are two contradictory stories about him in captivity, one is that he was forced to swallow molten gold and the other is him being flayed alive. You could have put the scene in game of thrones where Drogo gives the golden crown to Viserys or you could have used any one of the Ramsay Bolton torture scenes cause the flayed man was their sigil.
I guess we can say he missed a golden opportunity
The other, at least the Persian records, had him happily retired to a city where he was appointed as its architect.
@@powerist209 Oh shit, you had me laughing man.
Tominus could have also done this with Crassus, if he was doing a video about important figures in the Roman Republic. The Parthians supposedly killed Crassus by pouring molten gold into his mouth, though the validity of this claim is dubious.
@jimmywhisper A valid point. Crassus is known to have died in the Battle of Carrhae against the Parthians, but you are right about the story of gold being poured down his throat being a myth. The story comes from the Roman historian, Cassius Dio, who lived two centuries after Crassus's death, and so it is not a contemporary source. Therefore, it's most likely that Crassus was killed unceremoniously by the Parthians, along with the Romans who attacked in Carrhae.
No Lucius Verus or Geta?
clodius albinus, herennius....
Congratulations, you're invited to the Bacchanalia this year. 🍷
Gallienus, did everything
Gallenius won a lot of battles, he wasnt Aurelian but he did a lot in the time he was emperor.
I love how you stopped just before Aurelian. Part 2 better be good 😤
He already has meme videos for both Aurelian and Constantine, that’s a sentence I never thought I’d say
Fuck I lost it at Pertinax. Very accurate 🤣
Titus had me rolling on the floor, A+ work man
That clip was basically made for Caligula 💀
2:50 historical misconception strikes
As a nation, America is lucky to have never had a gay president. I hope.
Dam verry funny video, cant wait for part 2, i hope you will also cover the emperor of the eastern empire
Hey now Gallienus did fifteen years of running all around the Empire trying to keep it together! He was more the guy running around with a water bucket screaming 'Oh god everything is on fire and I don't have enough water!'
Thrax was perfect!
This is art
Dude, I love this shit. I actually learned.
Diocletian needs to be Moses in Prince of Egypt splitting the Red Sea (Eastern and Western Empires)
You did Alexander Severus dirty bro damn
"Money does not stink" -Vespasian
2:00 el video original?
Domitian was a good emperor, guy read a lot. The nerd thing would have worked well for him. Early on, at least.
It’s true,Thrax literally was sauron.
5:13 why was Emperor Valerianus (Valerian) Lost like it says in this video? What's the context of this meme? I'm very curious about this.
His fate is unknown
he lost in a battle and got captured
He becomes a furniture and when he is of no use, he was gorged on molten gold and flayed alive
bruh hadrian wasnt gay bro dont cmon man
Where TF is my guy Restitutor Orbis AURELIAN.
I like the doubting tone in caesars voice when he says republic.
Maximinus thrax 💪
I wonder how you’ll portray the later emperors like Valentinian I who raged himself to death and owned two pet bears that would feast on insubordinate commanders
So glad you appeared on my feed
Fun fact: Cesar was not an emperor
Not officially. But neither were the principals emperors.
@@yunleung2631
Caesar was a dictator(in the roman sense of the word), a somewhat different role from Princeps
He had the Dictator status for life I think, I believe that when you are named Dictator (the most powerfull thing you can be in Roman Republic) you hold so much power that the only way you stop being Dictator is either giving up the title to restore normality or getting killed, iirc.
That title was given in moments of desperate need for a strong leader to face the incoming menace (happened during the second Punic Wars as well i believe, can't remember the name of the senator tho).
No but he is our god
Riccardo Deidda but didn’t the principes hold all the power by influence anyways? Dictator means that their words are law, so dictator for life would fit right in.
This is amazing laughed out loud 3 times
UNDERRATED AF
All the references are on point
I can't wait for the Dominus Emperors if you are planning to do them all that is
Hadrian should just be Hitler screaming about Jews 😂
Good sir I need the name of the lady at 2:00 for my academic research, thank you very much.
Obligatory "Caesar was not an emperor"
Julius Caesar is the 0th emperor
Im waiting for Diocletian's meme
Can't wait for Bizentine emperors
@@TominusMaximus owo
1:59 What artistic masterpiece did this lady originally come from?
3:42 is actually kind of depressing, even if he is partially responsible for the third century crisis--I can't help but feel empathy for a kid given that much power.
But by the time of his death he was 26
I didn't buy..if he wasn't murdered he could had avoided third century crisis
YES MAXIMINUS IS FUCKING AMAZING
Lmao them Nigerian movies bruh 😂
August Fleming and caligula fighting neptune were the best
Augustus Ryder, Titus Cartman, gay Hadrian and the black Septimius Severus (he had Carthaginian ancestors indeed) made my day but...I was keen on seeing the meme for the greatest Emperor, Aurelian.
I was hooked the second Alex Jones popped up on the screen
There goes my emperor WATCH IM AS HE GOOOOOOOES
Did you seriously stop this before you reached Aurelian?
I feel like the south park bit would have worked with Hardian more.
Must resist urge to point out Caesar was not an emperor
This actually sums them up well for the most part
Underrated af
i still cry for Valerianus
Caesar wasnt an emperor
@@TominusMaximus I like your logic
He was in Asterix and also he was the creator of the Emperors.
Rome was wild. I wish I could talk to these guys and ask them wtf is wrong.
this is golden
Gallienus thankfully has gotten a bit better reputation these days.
I mean he did do a lot, and tried to defend as much as he could.
It's just that he couldn't be everywhere at the same time, and at that point every frontier was under attack. And he survived gods know how many usurpers. Personally I rank him in the top ten emperors(but on the lower end) because he really did do everything that he could. Aurelian gets the credit for saving the empire, but Gallienus reformed the armies in a way that it was possible. I put him above guys like Septimus Severus, since he was just basically a military dictator that couldn't handle his spoiled kids.
Wait wait wait, ain't no way 2 co-Emperors were named Pu-PIENUS and BAL-binus the Matrix is fuckin' broken call tech support.
Imagine liking Al*xanderians
For respect of truth,romans don,t speak english language.😮They speak vulgar language of latin.Is a roman empire language or maybe română,. In rest of movie all is very intresting and fun.😅😅
You forgot to add Mussolini trying to get into Da club
Don't forget Charlemagne also tried to get in the club as well with the fake Roman Empire the HRE.
The fact that I fully understand 80% of these and laughed my ass off makes me proud that I actually did good learning Roman history, just makes it all the sweeter
I live for these things
love it
and septimius severus isnt black tf do people think we north africans arnt black
I have so much left to learn.
I get the joke but Septimius was like elon musk African but not black, its more thought he was mixed skinned due to his father coming from Phoenician descendants in the 12th century bc wo settled into africa and more than likely mixed with native populations whilst his mother was olive roman skinned, his was at most darker than the average roman but then again rome was mixed with its skin color anyway because well GIANT EMPIRE, modern discussions on race in the ancient world are pretty stupid because they tend to be agenda driven.