Hottest Roman Emperor?

He supposedly had syphilis so good luck with that, OP.

Here's mine,: Elagabalus. 3nd century nerd-twink.

Lucius Verus. All day, all night.

Nerva was incompetent and perhaps a bit slow, but the BDF makes him hot.

Augustus

Augustus. He found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble.

I also like Julius Caesar. When he conquered Gaul, he killed a quarter of the population. But he was a genious.

Hadrian! He got to second base with me in school.

Says Domitian, "Assume the position!"

Emperor Commodus posing as Hercules.

Caligula was mocked by Roman DLers for being a bottom, apparently. Sodomy was all the rage but only if you were a top, of course.

Septimius Severus, i.e the swarthy Arab one. Too bad he was one of the few straight emperors.

Caligula has a prissy little mouth. Hadrian was a hot daddy.

Hadrian could ride me all day...

I'll take The Old Muleteer, Vespasian.

i would like to fist Caligula. where is Nero?

Nero, bc i heard he could play musical instruments.

The ancient greek dudes are better, smarter.

Caligula? He looks like fucking Zuckerberg.

publius aelius hadrianus

Mainly, bc he looks like he would drive a Prius and make his own brew.

Yes, R5, Augustus was said to be very pretty when he was young, during his Octavian days.

He was played by Simon Woods on "ROME".

Hopefully he had as nice an ass as Simon:

[quote]Nero, bc i heard he could play musical instruments.

Did they have anything that resembles a keyboard in those days?

Trajan the Warrior Emperor. He took what he wanted, including me- he took me as his slave at thirteen and had me castrated at fifteen so I'd remain soft and lovely. I remained by his side for twenty years until his wife had me poisoned

[quote] Trajan the Warrior Emperor

Yikes. He looks like a derp version of Vladimir Putin.

Dlers could not survive a day in ancient rome. Ancient Roman food was disgusting, even the Greeks thought so. You would not have the energy needed to buy a ticket to enter the Roman Baths, let alone the endurance. So sorry.

Any chubby chasers for Vitellius? You know what they say about a man who loves to eat...

Y'all forgettin' 'bout moi?

Lucius Verus

[R27] he is hot for a block of marble

I like a bit of a rough looking brute so Caracalla, even though he was a nasty piece of work

If I was in a twinky kind of mood, I'd say Gordian III

Alexander Severus had a kind of Aaron Taylor-Johnson thing going on.

Slightly twinkier pic of Alexander Severus.

R 32

Now thats a piece of marble, I could smooch.

Augustus. Always known to be horse hung.

Eliogabalus was totally crazy even for roman emperors' standards. legend says he asked surgeons to try and give him a sex change procedure. he was a trans!

Definitely Augustus. Looked like a cute twink as a young man (and might have serviced Uncle Julius for favor and advancement), but in reality he was a vicious manipulator with the instincts of a gangster and the mind of an IRS auditor. Fabulous bitch all-around.

Elagabalus was just confused by the gender fluidity movement of the early third century. He kept his peen.

Fun fact: most men went commando under their togas back in those days! During occasions of strenuous activity, they wore leather strip-like undergarments, the equivalent of the modern jock strap!

i always had a fetish for ancient rome. that city was wild and men were hot by all accounts.

Augustus has a worm-inested scrotum. I can’t imagine how that happens.

Julius Caesar had a seizure disorder. I once read that pigs in Egypt at that time were full of parasites. The thought was that he was infected, during his time with Cleopatra, with brain worms and that’s what caused his seizures.

Cute twinky Gordian III (as mentioned by R30). Became emperor at 13, killed in battle by 19. I find these marble portrayals of ancient Roman emperors in their military regalia to be sexy af.

[quote]Augustus has a worm-inested scrotum. I can’t imagine how that happens.

I can.

it would have been mark antony, if it wasn't for that little shit Octavian.

I like this thread, op. It represents both the highest and lowest level of threads on DL. Nicely Played.

Lucius Verus

[quote]most men went commando under their togas back in those days!

Hot!

I was thinking as it seems there would have been a lot of emperors who were bisexual, say you were one hot piece of male ass back in those times. Is there an emperor you could have survived having a fling, relationship with?

Reading the brief bios of the ones I like the look of. As a lot of them seem to be borderline insane or egomaniacs. I have this notion, they'd prefer their male flings dead, once they dump you. No giving you a villa in wherever and a 1000 pieces of gold, etc as a parting gift

geez, it's a total low when DL gets the hots over ancient marble statues.

Hard Rock makes me Rock Hard.

This is some hard core B.C./A.D. Porn!

[quote]Is there an emperor you could have survived having a fling, relationship with?

I'm gonna say no.

There really isn't anyone in history that I would want to fuck who existed until the broad establishment of the germ theory of disease.

Augustus was a pedophile and he raised Caligula. I suspect Caligula was so crazy because he was abused in every possible way by Augustus. Anyway, when Augustus was tired of a particular playmate, he would have him or her flung off the cliffs of his mountainside retreat in Naples. So, R47, Augustus was not a dream date.

No love for the Byzantine emperors around here?! I hope you bitches aren't forgetting that the collapse of Roman empire was completed in 1453, not 476!

I'd drop my knickers for Nikephoros II Phokas faster than you can say "Istanbul, not Constantinople."

Gun powder destroyed the Roman Empire. Until the invention of the cannon, Constantinople was impregnable. Though, the plague helped, too.

R53, the pedophile who raised Caligula was Tiberius, not Augustus. Tiberius seems to have been the worst sort of human being, cruel and brutal and a pedophile, yet inclined to feel sorry for himself of all people

And BTW pedophilia was both legal and socially acceptable in ancient Rome, as long as you used child slaves. Or if you were emperor.

r53, our modern idea of abuse was normal in those times.

Of the first batch: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero --- only Claudius was what we would call straight.

The interesting thing is, Tiberius's first marriage is made out to be some sort of tragic love story. He supposedly grew to love his first wife, Vipsania very deeply, but was later forced to divorce her against his will and marry someone else. On one occasion, Tiberius happened to catch a glimpse of Vipsania in a crowd and stared at her with tears in his eyes. He also later had her second husband imprisoned, where he starved to death.

It's so weird that T later turned out to be a pederast creep.

Why did Tiberius divorce?

I think one look will tell you why they divorced! Seriously, he divorced Vipsania at the request of Augustus so he could marry Augustus daughter Julia. Keeping the throne in the family and all that.

Guess someone has said that it was Tiberius, not Augustus, who was the ped on Capri. The TV "I, Claudius" is chock full of great actors, with the great, deeply missed John Hurt as Caligula. Sort of a pendant to his Quentin Crisp.

I like John Hurt, but his Caligula was so over the top and camp that it was hard to take him entirely seriously.

Ralph Bates gives a more menacing portrayal of Caligula in the 1968 series, "The Caesars".

What's with the older actors always being used to portray Caligula? He died at age 28.

But he was a VERY old 28.

I like this DLthread, OP. You shall be virtually anointed with oils and other "Roman Triumphs."

When I was a kid I got interested in Ancient Rome , mainly Julius Caesar and the first 4 emperors.

The first portrayals of them I got to see, was in the early 80s tv mini-series Anno Domini. Which no one ever saw it seems. James Mason as Tiberius and John McEnery version of Caligula were very memorable for me and he was deranged enough in it

Thank god, I didnt see John Hurt (even though the camp can be clearly seen as an adult) as Caligula

My teenage self would have had disturbed nightmares for god knows how long

AD/BC Hot Roman porn

Caesar had seizures long before he ever went to Egypt. He suffered from epilepsy. My vote goes to Hadrian. He built his wall and he had a male lover.

Probus threw a hot fuck!

[quote]My vote goes to Hadrian. He built his wall

So THAT'S who Donald Trump is trying to emulate!

Givin' those bedroom eyes ... Gallienus

roman lair eyes

Nero the one that crucified Christians. 💁

What, R25? That he's fat?

[quote]Lucius Verus

Vintage Colt model Rick Wolfmeir could have been the reincarnation.

R73 great choice!

Loved John Hurt in I, Claudius. He was ridiculous and terrifiyng. His song!!!!

Elagabalus was the gayest emperor, though not the hottest. He is the subject of one of my favorite paintings though. Apparently he was in love with his blonde slave chariot driver and referred to him as his husband. I love the way they are looking at eachother through all of the commotion going on in this scene. You can see his lover on the far right.

I think just about everything about I, Claudius is great.

[quote]Poison is queen!

Nero is hot af

Elagabalus was hot ... a hot mess!

What's actually depicted in r80 In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top. Elagabalus wasn't the first to do this. It seems to have been a source of amusement for Nero too.

One of the emperors only ate figs he picked himself. His mother poisoned him by painting the figs on the tree with poison.

Did I get that right, history buffs?

Jay Robinson is another memorable Caligula with appearances in The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators.

The consensus of ancient historians was that Claudius was murdered by poison – possibly contained in mushrooms or on a feather – and died in the early hours of 13 October 54 AD. By Agrippina, wife # 4 who happened to be his niece and also Nero's mama.

Kind of, R85. In *I, Claudius* Augustus was poisoned when picked and ate figs that his wife, Livia (played by DL fave Siân Phillips in the tv version) deliberately smeared with poison. But that didn't really happen; he just got old and sick and died.

Actually, R88, the circumstances around Augustus's death are disputed. We are not sure whether he died of a sickness in old age, or whether Livia hastened his death.

The story about the poisoned figs actually comes from the Roman historian Cassius Dio. You can find it in Book 56, Chapter 30.

So it has some historical basis, and was not just made up for I, Claudius.

Thank you, historians of DataLounge.

You can read all about it in Plutarch. Indulge you naughty fantasies, with some history.

You are cordially invited to

Quote4

R18

Hadrian was a very hot daddy. More or less openly gay too.

I don't know if my highscool history teacher would be pleased or disappointed to hear me call Hadrian a hot daddy...

my vote is for Arugula

[R29]: Caracalla looks like he’d be a leatherman. Fit right in with the whole bd/sm crowd. Literally, since he was a psychopathic brute, ended up getting assassinated by his own men while he was shitting at the side of the road.

Alexander the Great was uber hot, but turned mean and unpredictable when he drank, and he drank a lot!

Mithradates VI king of Pontus, d. about 45 BCE or so, was also a hot man., famous for taking all kinds of poisons to immunize himself against them, and for his resistance to relentless Roman incursion.

But Hadrian is my husband material. Such a hot, handsome man! (Even though all he was attracted to were teenagers. His great love was the 16-year-old Antinous, who died at 20, though there are those who say Hadrian was already tiring of him. Typical.)

Apologies for including two non-Roman men, though they were both certainly hot as fuck.

Among non-emperors, I’d mention Marc Antony, who looked like the equivalent of our hunky football players.

"Tiberius seems to have been the worst sort of human being, cruel and brutal and a pedophile, yet inclined to feel sorry for himself of all people"

The problem is that the main - incomplete - source we have for the reign of Tiberius is by Tacitus, a dyed-in-the-wool Julian supporter who hated the Claudian Tiberius, and blamed him for the destruction of the Julians....

Wasn't Suetonius the source for all the nasty gossip about Tiberius, R98? He's such a great read, he finishes up each entry on the twelve Ceasars by including a few pages of dirt about each emperor's sexual practices, including Tiberius's pedophilia and cruel pranks.

Suetonius was the main source for the excellent "I, Claudius", BTW, although obviously the author made up a lot.

R31, he totally does!!

Probably R99 - Suetonius is generally considered a bit more "gossipy" than Tacitus who is more political...

Read Plutarch.

Join the quote4 book club over on reddit, Quote4

R80 that is one gay-ass painting.

Antinous, the greatest love of Hadrian's life was literally the very definition of male beauty at the time. He was a god in every sense. I'd love to see Hadrian and Antinous in action. It must have been extremely hot.

You asked for emperor, I know. But Hadrian 's lover was quite something.

When Antinous was assassinated, Hadrian commissioned artists to reproduce is likeness everywhere, so future generations would know he existed and how handsome he was. And it worked ! In 2018 we still know !

Oh, I didn't see you R104. GMTA !

GMTA, indeed! Within seconds of each other.

[quote] Augustus was a pedophile

No. If rumors are true at all, that was his stepson, Tiberius, you are thinking of. There were rumors, though, that Augustus played the bottom for older men (including his great-uncle Julius Caesar). But there were no rumors he had sex regularly with boys.

[quote] and he raised Caligula.

No. Caligula (Gaius) was raised by his parents, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder. Germanicus then died when Caligula was a boy, but Agrippina.

sorry, that should read "but Agrippina continued to raise him."

Caligula was partly brought up by his... uncle Tiberius, the cruel pedophile. He spent some time on Capri where Tiberius indulged his worst tendencies, although I don't know how much time young Caligula spent there or whether he was involved with Tiberius's worst activities.

Caligula's mother Agrippina was by all account a highly moral Roman matron, so I think it's safe to assume that Tiberius had a bit of influence in bringing out his heir's worst tendencies. Like his fondness for incest, rape, and killing anyone who annoyed him.

[quote]I'd love to see Hadrian and Antinous in action. It must have been extremely hot.

Remember some years back there was going to be a film about Hadrian and Antinous, with Charlie Hunnam playing Antinous?

Like his fondness for incest, rape, and killing anyone who annoyed him... Good Times!

Julius Caesar was well known for his bisexuality during his lifetime. Suetonius says he was referred to as "Every woman's husband and every man's wife."

The Romans generally were fine with homosexuality IF you were the top. The thought bottoming was a mark of low status. They would fit right in with some circles in modern times...

Galba, who became Emperor after the downfall of Nero, was also said to have preferred the male sex.

Was Galba the one that scandalized Suetonius by preferring mature men to the usual boys?

Suetonius is a hell of a fun read, isn't he.

R116, here is what Suetonius says about Galba:

"He was given much to an unnatural lust for the male sex and such of them, too, as were old." (Chapter 22)

How creepy -- sex with grownups. No wonder he was emperor for just 7 months. Could have used some botox and filler too.

"I think it's safe to assume that Tiberius had a bit of influence in bringing out his heir's worst tendencies"

I think it is generally accepted that Gaius (Caligula) suffered from a pretty serious mental illness - it was Nero who was the spoiled, entitled brat,,,,

Another vote for Caracalla.

Good for Galba.

linky stinky r120

Marc Anthony was burly, very sexual, and openly had a male lover in his younger days. Apparently he fucked liked a mink and enjoyed it.

R123 Marc Anthony. Burly and very sexual.

A statue of Marc Anthony.

Speaking of Plutarch, let the demise of Sulla serve as a cautionary tale for lascivious DataLoungers:

“However, even though he had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made no denial of it. By this mode of life he aggravated a disease which was insignificant in its beginnings, and for a long time he knew not that his bowels were ulcerated. This disease corrupted his whole flesh also, and converted it into worms, so that although many were employed day and night in removing them, what they took away was as nothing compared with the increase upon him, but all his clothing, baths, hand-basins, and food, were infected with that flux of corruption, so violent was its discharge. [3] Therefore he immersed himself many times a-day in water to cleanse and scour his person. But it was of no use; for the change gained upon him rapidly, and the swarm of vermin defied all purification.”

R125, that looks like a statue of Augustus.

R127 - Yes, that’s Augustus.

Yes, it seems to have been misidentified as Marc Anthony.

Wow. Had no idea DL Eldergays were that old!

Did you all lust after centurions too?

R104 / R105 Hadrian was a 50 year old man by the time Antinous would've become his lover and Antinous himself would've been 13-16 years old when it first occurred. We got different definitions of hot.

This is the gayest thread ever. There is absolutely no way to assess the relative hotness of a group of men who all died 2000 years ago. But that stops no one here from having opinions on the subject.

Oh, my people. My people!

R124--Paulus Ryanus?

W&W for R133!!!!!

Bust of Marc Anthony wearing toga.

[quote]Apparently he fucked liked a mink and enjoyed it.

That's certainly the way Marc Anthony was portrayed on "ROME".

That's why I chose "Rome" on the thread about what TV or movie scene would you want to enter.

I’m glad none of you bitches mentioned Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor who assumed the throne at the lovely, if a bit old, age of 15. I would have wanted him all for myself until he abdicated at 16 (outlived his usefulness). He was portrayed by Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Last Legion.

Marc Anthony was never an emperor. Triumvir was as far as he got!

R9 Commodus was even more of a brutal psycho than Caligula (whi was more of a sex pest). He'd only be fuckable if he really did look like 26-year-old Joaquin Phoenix

[quote]The Romans generally were fine with homosexuality IF you were the top. The thought bottoming was a mark of low status.

Well, they also didn't like big dicks, so what did they know anyway?

Haaaadriaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn!

R104 Hadrian made love to Antinous for the first time when Antinous was 12-13 years old. Hadrian is someone I admire very deeply.

It’s interesting that nearly every emperor had at least one male lover (and even the greek ones (Alexander the Great etc) The bible really fucked everything up. Homo sex and homo love was a normal and beautiful thing in the ancient world.