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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wittwolf, post: 7948863, member: 116854&quot;][USER=100338]@Gregory Johnston[/USER] I dont know how deep you are into roman history but here a short version why I think the Theodosians are the worst emperors that ever ruled the empire (Some of this might be personal bias)</p><p>Many criticise Theodosius for his barbarian policys but my main points are his religious policy and his succesion. In the year 390 he ordered a big massacre killing around 7000 civilians in the greek city of Thessalonica. In the aftermath it seems that he didnt really want this and it just was an order that he gave out in a phase of rage he had after a minor rebellion in the city. But because murdering 7000 civilians isnt really the christian way he begged the church for forgiveness and received it by making policys intolerant to the old cults, jews and christian &quot;heretics&quot;. He ordered the destruction of temples and didnt mind when christian mobs killed famous &quot;pagans&quot;. An interesting movie about this time is Agora (2009) - playing in Alexandria in this time and mainly about the famous mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia.</p><p>Theodosius focus was clearly on the eastern empire so he kinda destroyed the western empire by making war against two competent western emperors to replace them with powerless childs. After destroying the western roman army and their leadership in the battle of frigidus he placed his son Honorius on the western throne. He would become the synonyme for lazy and incompetent rule while his brother Arcadius in the east at least had the decency to die early. </p><p>The aftermath of the battle of frigidus would become a big factor in the fall the empire because Theodosius tried to kill two enemies at once by using his gothic allies as cannonfodder. This didnt really make the goths happy servants and during the reign of Honorius and Arcadius they constantly tried to get compensated for their services, in the end leading to the sack of rome in the year 410.</p><p>Anyways here the two masters of disaster <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> :</p><p>Emperor Arcadius - GLORIA ROMANORVM (Emperor standing next to captive) - Constantinople mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1376919[/ATTACH] </p><p>Emperor Honorius - VIRTVS EXERCITI - Antioch mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1376920[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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