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THE END.

Attila raids the empire and inspires the Ring Cycle.

Where the East West trial separation becomes a divorce.

Diocletian turns Rome Japanese, and then Constantine turns it Christian.

The Severan dynasty ends, and then all hell breaks loose except for 5 years under Aurelian.

The Year of the Five Emperors tears Rome apart, and then the Severans tear it up some more.

Marcus Aurelius keeps the armchair warm and then Commodus goes full crazy.

Hadrian underwhelms and then Antoninus Pius placeholds.

Nerva placeholds and then Trajan takes it up to 11.

The Flavian Dynasty towers above Rome for about 20 years.

One year Four emperors.

History's favorite performer Nero can't quite nail the role of decent emperor.

Claudius shreds through multiple wives, breaks senators' hearts, and slays beached whales in a wild twenty years.

Caligula puts the clinic in clinically insane.

Tiberius suceeds Augustus in pretty much name only, proceeds to be mediocre to maybe evil.

The end of an era.

Augustus continues to rule Rome with the help of trusted generals.

Augustus finds himself in sole control of Rome. Liking his new position, he works to make it permanent.

The 2nd Triumvirate rules through fear, then takes down Brutus and Cassius. Then it takes down itself.

Generally unknown Caius Octavius buys himself an army and several magistracies.