No.73
Who is /roma/'s personal favorite Roman?
Pic related. Cato had principles and stuck to them to the end.
No.76
>>73Tell me his story anon.
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No.77
Nero because he was literally a crazy faggot like all of us.
No.78
>>76Cato was a hardcore republican and senator. He fought Caesar until the end and killed himself so Caesar couldn't capture him. Cato was famous for being incorruptible and stubborn. Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.
No.82
>>78I've always been pro Caesar but I wonder why he didn't like him.
No.86
>>82Caesar did fuck his sister. Plus there was a huge personality clash. Cato was a stoic Caesar was Caesar.
No.87
No.88
Marcus Aurelius, mate.
No.101
>>88what we do now…
Also, Pliny the Elder.
No.102
It is a tie between Cato and Cicero.
No.127
Augustus of course!
No.132
>>73Cato was a crazy puritanical asshole. My least favorite Roman.
No.136
>>132Popularis detected.
Don't you have some plebians to please with free bread?
No.145
Cicero hands down greatest Roman of all time, excluding Cincinnatus who is objectively the best.
No.146
1. Julius Caesar
2. Marcus Antonius
3. Augustus Caesar (Octavian)
4. Cicero
Haven't decided on others yet, but if we include others Scipio Africanus would be there, and some other emperors and people.
No.154
I have a huge soft spot for Caligula. I realise he most likely was a bad ruler seeing how he didn't really manage to hang onto power, but damn.
No.157
>>155
Threatening to name his horse a senator is admiration worthy if only because of how great of an insult it was.
No.164
Depends on how we're judging. For military prowess, for me, it's a throw up between Scipio Africanus or Gaius Marius. One boasts defeating Rome's greatest adversary, the other has a sweet barbarian genocide resume as well as making a pretty efficient army reform.
From a political, leadership point of view, it has to be Caesar, doesn't it? Sure, Augustus had his shit together, but at the end of the day, Caesar got the ball rolling.
Philosophically, Aurelius. Hands down. That man is my husbando. I still love the likes of Cato and Seneca, but the honest and virtuous Meditations is too enamoring to even give the others a chance
No.284
Augustus and Tiberius Gracchus