Wahnsinnige Todesfälle römischer Kaiser

What is… urination murder? Like how do those words go together

Rage stroke?

This is a confusing, terrible map. One of the many things that annoy about the map is why half of the empire is simply excluded.

What are these causes of death? Bed clothes? Cheese greed? Urination murder?

Regarding including Caesar here: Since calling yourself a king was punishable by death.. the first people we now call emperors referred to themselves as both “princeps” -first citizens, imperator, or just plain “Caesar” which is the origin of the both “Kaiser” in many Germanic languages and “tsar” in various Slavic languages.

So although we don’t consider Caesar to be a Roman emperor, all emperors that came after used his name to define their role.. so one can say that his rule determined what an emperor was.

I’ve heard of only one who “retired” and didn’t die in office one way or another. He went to someplace in the Balkans to grow cabbages.

My favorite one is Probus, burned then stabbed to death because he criticized his soldiers‘ shoddy public service work.

My dog may be at risk of cheese greed

Don’t forget Vespasian, horrid way for a top notch emperor to go…literally shat himself to death.

Most Reddit graphic ever.

Commodus was not killed in a wrestling choke. He was murdered in front of his wife/sister by a revenge-seeking gladiator in a public arena.