Rome has a long history of 1000 years, and there are many women of the good wife and wise mother type, but there are also women of the same type called "bad women".
This time, let's take a look at the villains who color such times.
8th place Zenobia
To be honest, Zenobia is a much better class than other women.
She was the Queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which was formed when the Roman Empire was divided into three during the Barracks emperor's era. It is said that he could not walk well due to the weight.
There is no evidence, but Zenobia entices her nephew Maenios with her husband, King Odanaes of the Palmyra Empire, along with her ex-wife's son, and immediately executes the Maeonius.
It may be very likely that her next emperor has inherited her own son, Vaballathus.
After that, he lost the battle with Aurelian of the Roman Empire, was taken to Rome and was made a spectacle at the triumphal ceremony, but after that he married a Senator, had children, and eventually lived much longer than Aurelian. I'm not sure who is the winner because I was quietly spending the rest of my life.
When she was defeated by Rome, she claimed that she had only been manipulated and condemned her high-ranking officials, who said that only Zenobia, the executed one, survived.
Her Zenobia herself is said to have spoken Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic in addition to her native Egyptian, and Edward Gibbon described her as "one of the best maidens in the Orient world". is doing.
7th place:Julia Mesa
She is the sister of Domna Mesa, the wife of Septimius Severus, and Julia Mesa, the grandmother of Helio Gabalus, the worst dark man in the history of the world.
She took the young Elagabalus in front of the soldiers, seizing the soldiers as the child of Caracalla, overthrowing the then Roman emperor Macrinus, and placing Elagabalus as the next emperor.
Emperor Macrinus is too weak because he loses to this extent, but Julia Mesa is a person with a mysterious power born in the family of the priests of the east, and it is said that she had a good grasp of the human heart.
She took Elagabalus into Rome, where she placed a statue of a god she worshiped in her Senate and made her worship it, manipulating Elagabalus, a boy, from behind.
Emperor Elagabalus was the emperor who was called the worst monarch in the world by the Roman history expert Edward Gibbon, and the content was so terrifying that it was so decadent and crazy that it couldn't be written on this blog.
Julia Mesa also ordered her guards to kill her because she had no control over her grandson, and when her younger brother Alexander was placed on the next emperor, she quietly died.
It is a terrible woman to use her grandchildren for her power and even take her life.
6th place:Theophano
In this blog, "Rome" is from Romulus to Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, so the policy is not to rank the characters of the Byzantine Empire, but it is too terrible to rank.
Theophano was reportedly a beautiful woman, and although her history is unknown, she became the empress of Romanos II despite being born of the common people.
Legend has it that Romanos was the daughter of a house that was injured during the time of the Crown Prince and was temporarily rushed in.
Or she may be the result of a large recruitment of the Crown Prince's princess, like Empress Dowager Cixi.
In any case, Romanos became an emperor. Romanos' father, Constantine VII, died suddenly despite his good health, so the theory that Theophano killed him is still strong today.
Romanos is known as the Dark Prince, and Theophano takes control of politics with his mistress Nikephoros Focas on his behalf and sends Romanos' sisters, who are likely to be his competitors, to the monastery. I sniff and kill my mother-in-law, Helene.
Later, Romanos II died suddenly at a young age, and Theophano, who had no backing, married his mistress Phocas, and when his sons became Byzantine emperors, he became regent and took control of politics.
Romanos' vassals opposed this, but used Phocas to crush them and executed one after another who participated in the rebellion, eventually getting tired of her husband, Phocas, and mistressing her nephew Johannes. He assassinated Phocas and made Johannes the emperor.
But here something unexpected happened to Theophono.
Archbishop Constantinople refuses to be crowned Johannes, and then confesses that Theophano has asked him to kill Phocas and expels Theophano from the court.
Theophano was then exiled to the island, but she seduced Johannes again, but she met her second exile, but when her sons became emperors, she returned to her imperial capital, Constantinople. That is.
5th place:Lucilla
Commodus is a well-known villain who has become a villain in the movie Gladiator, but he was still decent when Aurelius was in the position of emperor.
It is said that Commodus went crazy because of the assassination of Commodus by his real sister, Lucilla.
She tries to kill her younger brother for her throne and throws her villain to do it, one theory is that the pregnancy of Commodus' wife will reduce her status. He said he was afraid.
The Lucilla was exiled to the island and died shortly thereafter.
After this incident, the bad politics of Commodus accelerated, and he became a tyrant who made a name for himself in history.
4th place:Julia Agrippina
She is also the mother of the infamous Roman emperor Nero and the villain of Julia the Elder, a small agrippina of the blood of the first emperor Augustus.
It's hard to tell which is true and which is false about her, but her childhood was rumored to have a disturbing relationship with her brother, Caligula, and assassinated her husband, Emperor Clydius. It is said that she made her son Nero the emperor and had a relationship with that Nero.
Eventually, when Nero goes out of control, she tries to put another person on the emperor, but Nero's qualifications assassinate her.
She is said to have died leaving behind the words "Nero was born here. Stab here" and her word "Agrippina Complex" comes from her.
3rd place:Turia
The villain of Turia, the wife of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Roman kingdom, and the daughter of her predecessor, Servis Turius, is considerable.
Originally, both Turia and Spellbus were married to different partners, but they got married because they both lost their spouses at the same time.
There is even a theory that the two had a male-female relationship before they got married and killed each other's spouses.
Immediately after her marriage, she entices her husband, Spellbus, to attack her father, King Tarquinius, and pulls her still-breathing father in a carriage to finish off.
After that, he teamed up with her husband to execute the senators who were inconvenient to them one after another, and although they developed a terrorist politics, the anger of Roman citizens was triggered by the Lucretia incident caused by her son Skustus. Explosion, the clan leaves to escape Rome.
With this as an opportunity, Rome moved from royal government to republican government, and the king never appeared again for 1000 years until its destruction.
Later Roman citizens hated the appearance of the king, and all those who tried to become dictators were assassinated, including Caesar, but it was the last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, who decided to dislike the Roman king, and manipulated it from behind. It can be said that it was this Turia.
2nd place:Messalina
Messalina was the wife of the fourth Roman emperor, Claudis, and was married by a precession of 35 years.
Emperor Claudius is now married for the third time, but he seems to have been completely uninterested in his family life.
Messalina flirt one after another, and she wasn't tired of it, and when she went to the brothel herself, she said she had as many as 20 guests overnight.
Messalina does whatever she wants in the name of her husband Claudius, and if you don't like it, you're executed, and if you don't like it, even an innocent person is sentenced to death and confiscated. He married his mistress, Claudius, and was sentenced to death for a bigamy banned in Rome.
Her husband, Claudius, seemed completely uninterested in Messalina, and she said she continued her diet without moving her eyebrows when she heard her death.
Some of the people actually executed by Messalina include Nero's wife Poppea's mother and Valerius Asiatics, who had a magnificent Roman garden. He said he wanted a garden and made up his sins.
Since she admitted it and signed a document that was guilty of death, Claudius should be an evil emperor.
She seems to have worked seriously, but her princess did a little too much ...
1st place:Cleopatra
After all, Cleopatra is probably the only villain in Rome.
"If Cleopatra's nose was 3 cm lower, her history would have changed," Pascal said, but Cleopatra is certainly a villain who changed history.
Cleopatra became a co-sovereign with her younger brother Ptolemy XIII as a teenager, but due to poor agreement with her younger brother, Cleopatra was banished from Egypt.
Just then Caesar, the winner of the Battle of Pharsalus, came to Egypt following Pompey.
Fortunately, Cleopatra sneaks into Caesar, who is known for her love for women, and fascinates her with her sex appeal.
When she had Caesarion with Caesar, she moved to Rome and became her queen.
Cleopatra, who thought that Caesar was assassinated and would choose Caesarion as his successor, was indignant when he heard that Octavian, who was only an 18-year-old young man who had never heard of Octavian, became Caesar's successor, and left Rome. Then he returned to Egypt.
Cleopatra, who wants Roman supremacy, seduces Antonius, who was one of Caesar's most powerful men. Was.
Antonius was a relatively talented general in combat, but after being fascinated by Cleopatra, he fell in love with him and gave Cleopatra the land to the east of Rome.
Antonius in such a state is abandoned by many soldiers, becomes extremely weak in battle, and is defeated in the battle with the Persian forces in the east.
Still in power, Antonius considers a strategy to defeat Octavian in a land battle, but Cleopatra refuses. He begs for a decisive battle at sea.
As a result, Antonius decides to fight at sea, which he is not good at, and faces the Battle of Actium.
Cleopatra escaped from the battlefield when the disadvantages became apparent at the same time as the battle, and Antonius, who commanded his troops, followed suit and left the battlefield.
The surviving soldier surrenders to Octavian without the intention of fighting.
He tells Antonius, who has been chasing him, false information that he has died, and drives him to commit suicide.
However, Octavian rejected this, and Cleopatra, who had an idea of everything, died himself by biting his neck with a poisonous snake.
Cleopatra, who played with the lives and hearts of many soldiers, including Antonius, for his own desire for power, can be said to be one of the top villains in world history.
As for Cleopatra, it seems unlikely that he is a villain, and he is not a Roman human but an Egyptian princess, but I feel that he is different from other people, and he is also the main character of Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra". After all, I made it to the 1st place because it was a person with a rank suitable for the 1st place.
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