Roman Emperors Portrayed in Memes - Part 1

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Quick historical explanations for the specific memes

1) Caesar - waged war against the Senate of Rome
2) Augustus - he was a genius (duh)
3) Tiberius - he spent his last years in solitude on the island of Samos
4) Caligula - allegedly he let ordered his soldiers to attack a sea to harm Neptune, god of the sea
5) Claudius - probably suffered from cerebral palsy
6) Nero - ordered Rome to be set on fire to gain musical inspiration (fake)
7) Galba - reigned for 6 months
8) Otho - reigned for 3 months
9) Vitellius - was really fat (and reigned for 6 months)
10) Vespasian - allegedly he was very greedy
11) Titus - crushed the Jewish rebellion in the year 70 AD
12) Domitian - just another cruel Emperor
13) Nerva - adopoted Trajan to prevent civil war
14) Trajan - during his reign Rome reached its maximum territorial extent
15) Hadrian - was gay
16) Antonius Pius - one of the reasons he was called Pius was that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings
17) Marcus Aurelius - a Stoic philosopher
18) Commodus - was not a Stoic philisopher
19) Pertinax - was killed by Praetorians while trying to flee from them
20) Didius Iulianus - offered Praetorians huge ammount of money to be declared Emperor and he didnt have them which got him killed.
21) Pescenius Niger - just that he has a funny name (heh, Pescennius)
22) Septimius Severus - recently heavily discussed that he was black (he wasnt) because he was born in Africa
23) Caracalla - massacred tens of thousands people in Alexandria, allegedly because they mocked him
24) Macrinus - killed Caracalla while he was on a toilet
25) Heliogabalus (Gabalus) - was an insane degenerate piece of filth
26) Severus Alexander - heavily relied on his mother during his reign
27) Maximinus Thrax - was a huge 2,6 meters (8 ft) tall brute
28) Balbinus, Pupienus, Gordian I., Gordian II. - all killed in their attempt to depose Maximian
29) Gordianus III., Philip the Arab - Gordian was killed by Philip during his Persian campaign
30) Trebonianus Gallus, Decius - Gallus refused to help Decius in the battle of Abritus which let to Decius death (or Gallus just couldnt make it in time)
31) Valerian - was captured by Persians in 260, his fate is unknown
32) Gallienus, Claudius - during reign of Gallienus the Crisis of the Third Century erupted, the Empire was partially saved by Claudius