Answer/ Explanation:
1. <u>Nero </u>- was often known as the “Madman of Rome” and was hands down the most notorious Roman of all time. He made the daily lives of Romans a grim affair during his reign which lasting from 54 AD to 68 AD. Nero was part ugly and all bad. During his rule, two-thirds of Rome was burnt down, which led to a massive loss of life and property.
2. <u>Commodus </u>- emperor turned wanna-be gladiator from the famous movie Gladiator in which Emperor Lucius Aurelius Commodus was played by the gifted actor Joaquin Phoenix. A cruel, power-hungry egomaniac, he saw himself as numero uno in the world. He styled himself on Hercules, and fancied himself as a gladiator, often neglecting his political duties and entering into the fighting arena against weak and poor opponents. Needless to say, this guy was hated by most Romans, and he was eventually assassinated by his own inner circle.
3. <u>Constantine </u>- Constantine I was also known as Constantine the Great, and he happened to be one of those emperors who did true justice to their names. The vast Roman Empire had been divided up between many different rulers by the third century AD. Constantine defeated all the would-be emperors and unified the divisions in the Roman kingdom. He then decided to relocate the capital from Rome to what was then Byzantium. Still not satisfied, he went on to rename the new capital as the more familiar-sounding Constantinopolis. Constantine is known in history as the first Christian Roman emperor. He not only initiated the evolution of the Roman Empire into a Christian state, but also opened a pathway for a culture with distinct influences from Christianity, which eventually had a huge impact on Western medieval culture.
4. <u>Julius Caesar</u> - Julius Caesar is arguably the most well known of the ancient Romans.The conflict in Gaul was proving to be the biggest obstacle to the path of Roman glory, and it was his brilliant campaign to conquer Gaul which led to his success, his strategies still being studied by training generals to this day. He also led expeditions to Germany and Britain, both of which were foreign territories to Rome at that time. But his ruthless success also gave rise to a number of political enemies, who plotted against him time and again. It was when he famously crossed the Rubicon and took control of Rome as a dictator that his opponents silently turned upon him. This animosity eventually led to his assassination which was plotted by Roman senators who repeatedly stabbed him to death.
5. <u>Spartacus </u>- most famous gladiator in the whole of Roman history was Spartacus. Spartacus, a Thracian by birth, was a soldier captured in war and then sold into slavery to fight as a gladiator. Before he was enslaved and forced to fight in the Roman arenas, not much was known about him, largely because the Romans never bothered to document the early lives of gladiators. It was estimated that at its peak the number of slaves in Rome was around one and a half million. First Spartacus convinced some 70 fellow gladiators to revolt and escape to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Then, over a period of about two years until 71 BC, he freed a number of slaves and trained them to form an army of 70,000 individuals. This immediately captured the attention of the Roman Senate, which sent a number of legions to fight the slave force and kill Spartacus himself, but not before he made his mark on Roman history.
6. <u>Augustus </u>- Born Gaius Octavius, Augustus is known as the founder of the Roman Empire, and a move away from the old Roman Republic and its first emperor. He reigned from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. The Senate changed his name to “Augustus” in honor of his great achievements. Together with the Roman Senate, he scripted a new constitution for the great Roman Empire over which he ruled wisely, building roads, aqueducts, and many famous buildings. He remains to this day the most famous and wise Roman emperor of them all.
