Adrian Goldsworthy

Well, it hasn't gone as bad as things could in the sense that there's always the potential to mess up. He has a long reign by the standards of this period. He's there a long time and surviving that long, even if much of the time you're a puppet.

Well, it hasn't gone as bad as things could in the sense that there's always the potential to mess up. He has a long reign by the standards of this period. He's there a long time and surviving that long, even if much of the time you're a puppet.

is still an achievement and it's very easy to say you know why doesn't somebody like this really sort things out start getting the empire working again but it's in the same way you know we know from our own system most governments most leaders are dealing with the decisions and consequences of those decisions of their predecessors so you know when things are bad yes they can try and blame them and they try and trade credit for the good things but their degree of control to make things happen quickly

is still an achievement and it's very easy to say you know why doesn't somebody like this really sort things out start getting the empire working again but it's in the same way you know we know from our own system most governments most leaders are dealing with the decisions and consequences of those decisions of their predecessors so you know when things are bad yes they can try and blame them and they try and trade credit for the good things but their degree of control to make things happen quickly

is still an achievement and it's very easy to say you know why doesn't somebody like this really sort things out start getting the empire working again but it's in the same way you know we know from our own system most governments most leaders are dealing with the decisions and consequences of those decisions of their predecessors so you know when things are bad yes they can try and blame them and they try and trade credit for the good things but their degree of control to make things happen quickly

is very limited. Everything is slower in the ancient world, and you've got a system that has developed over such a long period and got to this stage. With the other factors, I mean, you've got the impact, the ripples caused by the Huns and the other groups. So there are changes in what the wider world situation is. And ultimately, you know, you are emperor, you are imperator.

is very limited. Everything is slower in the ancient world, and you've got a system that has developed over such a long period and got to this stage. With the other factors, I mean, you've got the impact, the ripples caused by the Huns and the other groups. So there are changes in what the wider world situation is. And ultimately, you know, you are emperor, you are imperator.

is very limited. Everything is slower in the ancient world, and you've got a system that has developed over such a long period and got to this stage. With the other factors, I mean, you've got the impact, the ripples caused by the Huns and the other groups. So there are changes in what the wider world situation is. And ultimately, you know, you are emperor, you are imperator.

Security is your biggest task, really. That's what you're supposed to provide. You are supposed to make Rome strong and make sure that its enemies don't pick on it. So, you know, you are dealing from it's a stack deck in the first place for something like that. There isn't so much they could do.

Security is your biggest task, really. That's what you're supposed to provide. You are supposed to make Rome strong and make sure that its enemies don't pick on it. So, you know, you are dealing from it's a stack deck in the first place for something like that. There isn't so much they could do.

Security is your biggest task, really. That's what you're supposed to provide. You are supposed to make Rome strong and make sure that its enemies don't pick on it. So, you know, you are dealing from it's a stack deck in the first place for something like that. There isn't so much they could do.

However, they also, it's again, one of those things, looking from a distance, we can see stages of decline. But when you're living through it, all of this is normal. There is the traumatic event like the sack of Rome. But actually, you're not thinking in terms of 100 years ago, 200 years ago, what things were like then, because they've never been like that.

However, they also, it's again, one of those things, looking from a distance, we can see stages of decline. But when you're living through it, all of this is normal. There is the traumatic event like the sack of Rome. But actually, you're not thinking in terms of 100 years ago, 200 years ago, what things were like then, because they've never been like that.

However, they also, it's again, one of those things, looking from a distance, we can see stages of decline. But when you're living through it, all of this is normal. There is the traumatic event like the sack of Rome. But actually, you're not thinking in terms of 100 years ago, 200 years ago, what things were like then, because they've never been like that.

You might have read about them, but you accept what you have as natural, what you've grown up with. And the tendency is with all ancient governments, they're sort of conservative with the small c, is that they don't try and do as much as modern states do. Part of what they're there for is almost to keep things as they are because, well, that's how we got here and that's why things are so good.

You might have read about them, but you accept what you have as natural, what you've grown up with. And the tendency is with all ancient governments, they're sort of conservative with the small c, is that they don't try and do as much as modern states do. Part of what they're there for is almost to keep things as they are because, well, that's how we got here and that's why things are so good.

You might have read about them, but you accept what you have as natural, what you've grown up with. And the tendency is with all ancient governments, they're sort of conservative with the small c, is that they don't try and do as much as modern states do. Part of what they're there for is almost to keep things as they are because, well, that's how we got here and that's why things are so good.

So apart from the occasional reformers, most people actually don't try and change things. So in a sense, he's following in the pattern of most emperors in not doing very much.

So apart from the occasional reformers, most people actually don't try and change things. So in a sense, he's following in the pattern of most emperors in not doing very much.

So apart from the occasional reformers, most people actually don't try and change things. So in a sense, he's following in the pattern of most emperors in not doing very much.