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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3716673, member: 76194"]True. Just like I imagine if you were to call the emperor Antoninus by the name of Caracalla, you'd be floating as a bloated carcass down the Tiber before sundown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the truly hated emperors got stuck with nicknames after their deaths. Another example is the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. I'm sure he'd be horrified to learn 1800 years later he would remembered as Elagabalus. The fact that Nero is still Nero makes me think he was not as unpopular when he died as ancient historians would have us believe. The aristocrats might have hated him, but he was popular with the masses. Which is probably why we still know him as Nero instead of Emperor Butterball, or Emperor Pantomime. I think ancient historians knew they might get away with saying some unflattering things about him after death in books that only rich Senators could afford to buy, but spreading an unflattering nickname about an emperor the masses still remembered fondly might have been a step too far, and an open invitation to be torn apart by a mob of angry citizens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3716673, member: 76194"]True. Just like I imagine if you were to call the emperor Antoninus by the name of Caracalla, you'd be floating as a bloated carcass down the Tiber before sundown. Most of the truly hated emperors got stuck with nicknames after their deaths. Another example is the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. I'm sure he'd be horrified to learn 1800 years later he would remembered as Elagabalus. The fact that Nero is still Nero makes me think he was not as unpopular when he died as ancient historians would have us believe. The aristocrats might have hated him, but he was popular with the masses. Which is probably why we still know him as Nero instead of Emperor Butterball, or Emperor Pantomime. I think ancient historians knew they might get away with saying some unflattering things about him after death in books that only rich Senators could afford to buy, but spreading an unflattering nickname about an emperor the masses still remembered fondly might have been a step too far, and an open invitation to be torn apart by a mob of angry citizens.[/QUOTE]
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