Rome's Own Army Put the Empire Up for Auction.
Rome was never conquered by barbarians. Its own army sold it to the highest bidder. In 193 AD, the Praetorian Guard, the emperor's personal bodyguard, murdered the emperor and literally auctioned the Roman Empire to whoever would pay the most. A rich senator bought the throne of fifty million people and lasted 66 days. But the auction was just the moment a four-hundred-year disease finally became visible. This documentary follows the second death of Rome, the death by the sword. How Augustus's elite bodyguard slowly learned it could make and unmake emperors; the donativum bribe that turned the throne into a subscription; Claudius found hiding behind a curtain and crowned by soldiers; the literal auction of 193; Septimius Severus and his deathbed advice ("enrich the soldiers, ignore everyone else"); the Crisis of the Third Century, when Rome burned through around twenty-six emperors in fifty years, almost all murdered by their own troops; the legions filled with barbarian mercenaries; and 476 AD, when a barbarian general named Odoacer simply took the boy-emperor off the throne and did not bother to name a replacement. The sword had swallowed the throne whole. This is the second chapter of our series on the three deaths of Rome (the first, death by money, is on the channel), and a sequel to our series on the three deaths of ancient Egypt. Next: the third death, the strangest of all. The empire that "fell" in 476 and yet went on ruling from Constantinople for another thousand years. The Rome that would not die. CHAPTERS 00:00 The empire up for auction 01:06 Augustus builds a bodyguard 01:43 Who guards the guards? 02:20 The first murdered emperor 02:42 An emperor found behind a curtain 03:03 The throne gets a price tag 03:47 The auction of 193 AD 04:57 The armies march on Rome 05:19 Enrich the soldiers, ignore the rest 05:42 The Crisis of the Third Century 06:31 Power leaves the Senate 07:17 Diocletian tames the beast 08:02 An army that isn't Roman 09:06 476: the crown is taken 10:11 Money and murder, one spiral 11:18 How the shield became the sword 13:18 The empire that never fell 15:34 Next: the Rome that would not die Music: "Ibn Al-Noor" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #Rome #RomanEmpire #History
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