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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OutsiderSubtype, post: 6845705, member: 112457&quot;]Well, I have a few favorites, here are some of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius</b> is a great choice. He spent his time building roads and aqueducts and keeping the food supply stable. And of course his true love Faustina Senior, who seems to have been quite popular and a patron of education. Here is Diva Faustina:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272500[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Vespasian </b>is probably the emperor I would most like to meet personally. If I am to believe Suetonius he had a great sense of humor and could even take a joke at his own expense. He would also have crazy war stories from all his campaigns.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272504[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diocletian</b> is another favorite, I don&#039;t care for everything he did, but the fact is he was handed an impossible situation where it would be extremely difficult to even survive. Yet he did survive and he did more than anyone else to end the Crisis of the Third Century. He had to turn the empire into basically an armed camp to do it, and many of his reforms probably were awful for ordinary people, but he at least he ensured the survival of Roman culture, law, and administration.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272509[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And from my avatar you can tell that I also like <b>Maxentius</b>, although in his case it&#039;s more amusement at his grand ambitions and shameless propaganda campaigns than any sort of admiration of effective rule (some of his building projects were cool though).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272510[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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