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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 24777800, member: 83845&quot;]If one wants to make value judgments on Roman emperors I think it is more useful to abandon the loaded term “good” and substitute “effective.”</p><p><br /></p><p>In that light there are obvious stand outs who were clearly effective, despite whatever other defects they may have had from our modern perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>My list of effective emperors from Augustus to Diocletian.</p><ul> <li>Augustus</li> <li>Tiberius </li> <li>Claudius </li> <li>Vespasian</li> <li>Trajan</li> <li>Hadrian</li> <li>Antoninus Pius</li> <li>Marcus Aurelius </li> <li>Septimius Severus</li> <li>Aurelian</li> <li>Diocletian </li> </ul><p>Titus and (maybe) Nerva could have been effective emperors but their careers were too short to come to a definitive conclusion. In some ways I think the stereotype of the “5 good emperors” has a lot of merit to it. The majority of these men were obviously effective autocrats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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