After the death of Emperor Commodus, the real power of Rome was held by the guards.
The Guard Secretary, Reto, who allegedly buried Emperor Commodus, also killed Publius Helvius Pertinax.
Secretary Konoe, who became a kingmaker, bid for the next emperor's right, and Didius Julianus purchased this right.
Family of Senators from generation to generation
Didius Julianus is rich in a nutshell! Is.
When you think of him, it's enough to think of successive members of the tribe.
He was born in what is now called Milan, and studied abroad in Rome when he was 15 years old. It is said that his study abroad destination was the parents' home of Emperor Aurelius' mother.
Partly because of that, he succeeded in taking a key position in the empire, and after experiencing Quaestor (Board of Audit) and Ediris, he became Praetor (legal officer), and after that he was selected as a consul after experiencing each province as Propraetor. There is.
It would be a typical Roman "honored career".
At the age of 60 when Julian became emperor, no one knows now whether he wanted honor after his career was climbed, or whether he wanted to seriously rebuild the Roman Empire.
Emperor inauguration and anti-Julian
At the same time Julian became emperor, the ministers of each province's governor's office uprised.
It is said that Aurelius succeeded Commodus in order to prevent this.
And this was a big miscalculation for Julian and Konoe Secretary Leto.
Among them, the action of Severus Septimius, the Secretary-General of Pannonia, was swift and began to march toward Rome.
Julian proposes joint rule to Septimius, but completely ignores it.
The Senate tolerated Septimius, impeached Julian as the emperor, and the guards betrayed Julian.
Julian is eventually forced to say goodbye to the world by the guards. He was in office for only 64 days.
His last words were, "What did I do? ... Who did I kill?"
Certainly Julian has not killed anyone. He isn't doing anything.
But he has done the worst thing about an auction of emperorship. This trampled on the pride of the Romans and destroyed the emperor's power.
The Roman emperor is just the representative of the citizens, "Princeps". He is not in a position to trade in gold.
Wasn't Julian the one who knew the most about it?
Buying and selling of emperorship.
Corruption of imperial Rome is extremely rare here.
The guards who killed Julian sold a flirtation to Septimius and swore absolute obedience, but Septimius refused to do so, saving only his life on the condition that he did not approach Rome.
If you are blinded by your immediate desires, there is nothing wrong with it.
Julian was a life like a fairy tale failure.
To be honest, I can't help.