And then in 1508, the last of his really important legations, he's sent for six months to the court of Maximilian, the Holy Roman Emperor . Now, he's met the pope on many occasions.He's met the king of France on many occasions.
Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon to assassination of Caesar to the Battle of Actium, and then the Civil War dismantles the Republic and concentrates power in a single ruler, Octavian, AKA Augustus, the first Roman emperor , let's say. Then 27 BC, Augustus founds the Principate, really low-key monarchy. And so officially, that ends the Republic, and then that begins, 27 BC to 180 AD, the Pax Romana, which is a period of relative peace and stability. And a lot of the emperors we know of,
Wait a second. Why would he say that? The Roman Emperor opens it up and there's a book inside of it.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? Takes it to the Roman Emperor .
I do also think Europe... Like, Charlemagne puts together this vast empire that, you know, fairly approximates the Western Roman Empire. If you squint- ... it looks like the Western Roman Empire. He's calling himself, The new Roman emperor . This will eventually mutate into the Holy Roman Empire. But it's very much this idea that it's back. The Roman Empire is back.
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? It's risky to be a Roman emperor .
He's met the king of France on many occasions. He's spent several months talking to the Holy Roman Emperor . This explains a certain tone about his politics.
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? So these are the risks you get for being a Roman emperor .
B. COATES: That's right. E. FOLEY: But the Roman emperor did actually rethink his policy for colonizing Britain and go with a less aggressive kind of stance on it after her revolt, because it was so significant to them.
But Dionysius-- yes, Dionysius replaced a calendrical system which had been based on what's called the Diocletianic era, meaning that this had picked up at the accession of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284 CE. And Dionysius established this system then in 525, so about a century later.
to be really difficult to reconstruct and do a transition to democracy. But we succeeded. But he felt he would be like Cincinnatus, the Roman emperor and dictator, who had, uh, cleaned up the Roman Empire after a period of upheaval. He went and cultivated his land after that. And then
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? And then, this is a picture of Valerian, the Roman emperor who was captured by the Persians and used as a footstool.
Well, I'll give it a go. He actually has the best perspective, because he's-- "Hadrian" is an opera about the second century Roman emperor who most of you probably have heard about or studied in school, and is associated with Hadrian's Wall.