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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3990411, member: 19463&quot;]Excellent coin!&nbsp; Have you noticed that the major megalomanics in Roman history tend to have gained their position not from who they were but from who their parents were?&nbsp; Beyond that, the younger the person was when the family came to power, the worse the likelihood of megalomania.&nbsp; Of the top level (Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus and Elagabalus) two were elevated by a worthy father and three more by grandmothers.&nbsp; Note how rare it was for a Roman dynasty to last beyond two generations.&nbsp; Notice how megalomaniacs did not tend to die in bed.&nbsp; Someone will point out the exceptions to these rules but it would seem that had the Roman Empire followed a rule excluding men with children from power, we might all be speaking Latin still.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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