Kingbreakers: The Praetorian Guard
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Roman Empire and the Emperor of Rome
The title of emperor of rome would be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The only men who could possibly front that kind of cash were the moneyed elite senators and bureaucrats. Two men come forward with the cash, with two competing offers. For a second it looked like the governor was about to get a very big promotion. But then the filthy, rich senator, a man named ditus julianus, pulls out all the stops. He makes an even more obscene offer, something that blows the other bid right out of the water. And just like that, rome got rand new emperor.
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