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All of these are famous for different reasons. Julius Caesar is remembered as a great military leader, Augustus as the first and greatest emperor, Tiberius as a paranoid recluse, Caligula as an insane madman, Claudius as a plodding academic, and Nero as a tyrannical persecutor. Conceivably the most dysfunctional family in history, they have also probably been the most influential, totally changing the course of Western Civilisation.
All of these are famous for different reasons. Julius Caesar is remembered as a great military leader, Augustus as the first and greatest emperor, Tiberius as a paranoid recluse, Caligula as an insane madman, Claudius as a plodding academic, and Nero as a tyrannical persecutor. Conceivably the most dysfunctional family in history, they have also probably been the most influential, totally changing the course of Western Civilisation.
The Julio-Claudian Era came to and end when Nero was declared a public enemy by the Senate, fled Rome, and finally killed himself. There followed a further bout of civil wars, similar to those which had brought Caesar to power in the first place, but the office of emperor, created by the Julio-Claudians, survived. Never again would the Romans elect their rulers.