History of Europe

The trigger for the decline of Rome! About the life of Empress Lucilla and the attempted assassination of her younger brother!

Girls generally hate history.

I think so.

Only men are active in world history and Japanese history, and when I think that they have appeared occasionally, they are usually bad politicians or bad women.

So, this time too, I will introduce the villain.

The protagonist of this time, Lucilla, is the daughter of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who is considered to be a famous figure in the world, and is a woman who was in the position of "Augusta" which means the empress.

Why is she such a villain?

What the hell did she do?

She is not the emperor's wife, but Augusta

Augusta was born between 148 and 150, the last of the Five Good Emperors, Aurelius, and his wife, Fastina.

Her father was the Roman emperor, her mother was the daughter of Antoninus Pius, the fourth daughter of the Five Wise Emperors, and she was born and raised in a deep blue family. It was a perfect partner.

Emperor Aurelius gave her the name "Augusta" to represent her empress, perhaps because her daughter was so cute.

This bad habit began with former emperor Antoninus Pius, who also gave her daughter Fastina the honorific title of Augusta before her husband became emperor.

Although Pius had an impeccable and perfect reign, this may be the only mismanagement.

Lucius was born and raised in the court all the time, but her only unfortunate thing for her is that her husband, Lucius, dies prematurely.

Roman custom is that a woman who loses her husband will soon marry the next person.

Emperor Aurelius chose Ruricius as a man named Pompeianus, but Ruricius seems to have hated this man anyway.

Pompeianus was born in the Syrian province of Syria, and was a self-made soldier. It's even natural that he doesn't go with the greenhouse-grown Lucilla.

Her mother, Fastina, seemed to be against the marriage, and her couple seemed to be cursing Pompeianus.

When her mother died, Lucilla became her only Augusta. Although she is not the emperor's wife, she would be called Augusta, but she died as her father died, and her younger brother Commodus became the next emperor.

Attempted assassination of Commodus

Two years after Commodus became emperor, an incident occurred in which he was attacked by a poor man returning from the theater.

The bad guys get caught quickly and are first surprised by the name.

The name of the bad guy was Claudius Pompeianus Quintianus, the nephew of Pompeianus, who was said to be a great general. Cross-examination by the bad guys revealed that the masterminds of the plot were Marx Umidius Quaduratos and Augusta Talchilla.

The surprise of Commodus at this time was considerable.

That's right, because her real sister was trying to make her dead.

One theory is that the reason Lucilla ran into such a brutality was that the pregnancy of Commodus' wife gave birth to Augusta in addition to herself.

I don't know now, but it was certain that Lucilla aimed at the life of Commodus.

The bad guys and Umidius are executed, and Lucilla dies of unknown cause after being washed away on Capri.

Commodus is said to have changed people since this day.

The children of Emperor Aurelius, the Stoic philosopher who became the etymology of the stoic, and the author of the famous book "The Thoughts of the Emperor", would be like this ...

It can be said that Emperor Aurelius apparently failed to raise a child.

The incident she caused really didn't benefit anyone.

She lost her life and his brother turned into a tyrant.

The Roman Empire had no choice but to begin its decline on this day. Like a stone going down a slope.