Life of Emperor Otho #7 - The Shortest Reigning Roman Emperor, Roman History Documentary Series 

You know, Otho gets lumped in with the bad emperors quite often, but the way he went out was pretty noble, I think.

As my Roman history professor always said: “oh look, a noble relatively not corrupt man has taken the throne of Rome, oh… he’s dead now.”

Really feel very bad for Emperor Otho, to be honest. Nero, despite being his friend, forced him to divorce his beloved wife and then he definitely lost her when the Emperor brutally murdered her by kicking her to death, even though she was pregnant, not to mention that Nero also publicly humiliated Otho on several occasions, like when he punched him in the face for calling him Lucius Domitius (the name Nero had before his mother married Claudius). Despite everything he suffered, Otho went on with his life, being even able to become Emperor and humiliate the memory of the deceased Nero. Unfortunately, Destiny wanted the fat degenerate of Vitellius to rebel against him, and in the end, Otho preferred to kill himself instead of sacrificing his men's lives. Despite only being Emperor for two months, Otho proved to be an infinitely more honorable Emperor than Nero. Both the mini-series "A.D." and Anthony Burgess's book "The Kingdom of the Wicked" recount part of Otho's life, if you are interested

I always considered Otho and Titus as the greatest emperors that never had a chance to rule. Do you prefer Otho or Titus?

Otho at least put the Empires well-being before his own ego. Well, lets see in the next one did. No nothing about Vitellus other then the wiki entry. Haven't read Gibbon's account.

Gordian II: "Am I a joke to you?"

He is so noble.

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Vitellius was not exactly "undisputed", considering there were allready armies gathering against him, lol.

He was too impatient if only he knew vitellius was on the way maybe he would let vitellius forces kill galba... and then he could kill vitellius...

1. Vespasian (7/10) 2. Otho (5/10) 3. Galba (3/10) 4. Vitellius (1/10)

Great video! Keep it up!

My cat is named Otho :)

Makes one wonder what direction the Empire would have taken if Otho's forces had won

Another great vid :)

My man I thought you were gone! thanks for blessing us with another vid

I love that you do a full video on each emperor. Most focus on a few good emperors, but mostly on the worst, Caligula and Nero. I think they are the least interesting, they didn’t seriously rule, they were just psychos. (Too much incestuous marriage in the Julio-Claudian dynasty). I get sick of constantly being offered so many videos about them, I want to learn equivalent detail about the others, too. I’m going to enjoy all the videos in this series.

Maybe not a 'great man' but a good man.

"A small grave for a small man" Vitellius

There's a fan film about this on RU-vid here. It's all in latin as well. Just type Latin emperor fan film

Great video. Keep up the good work

100% quality

Never had a chance. Howver his murder of galba meant that he was a usurper

Emperor Otho was of Etruscan origin, like Trebonianus Gallus!

He looks like Ptolemy the first soter

Are you from Sweden?

Awesome video, but the long pauses between words made the narration almost unbearable.

معروفة 🇱🇾 ليبيا 🇱🇾 اوهلها من تاريخ زمان ليبيا ابلاد الرومان هدي هي الحقيقة

Apostrophe fail.

Extremely interesting channel but terrible narrator...thankfully they got a new one in the later videos

Otho was a useless emperor

No. Nope and I call BS. He backstabbed Galba after he was not adopted and named successor. I believe Ortho should have fought until the death- the Roman way! Instead of leaving posterity with a well worded prose, suggesting we believe he backed down to prevent further blood shed😒