The Emperor Who Got Struck by Lightning - Emperor Carus #40 Roman History Documentary Series
Marcus Aurelius Carus was a Roman emperor who reigned from 282 to 283. He is remembered for the final suppression of the authority of the Senate, declining to accept their ratification of his election and informing them haughtily. Carus fought against the Germanic tribes and declined the restoration of the senate's authority, marking the end of the Crisis of the Third Century. He was the last emperor to have united a civil with a military education. His reign was short, and he died in July or August 283. After his death, his sons Carinus and Numerian succeeded him, with Carinus being known for his indulgence in extravagance and excess, and his memory was officially condemned in the Roman procedure known as damnatio memoriae.
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Chapters:
Rise to Power 00:32
The Persian Campaign 03:09
Struck by Lightning 06:01
Music:
LiteSaturation from Pixabay
Elegy - Imperator OST
Sacrifice - Total War Rome II OST
The River Nile - Total War Rome II OST
Artwork at 04:12 by Luis Alves: www.artstation.com/luisalves
Carus was a pretty hardcore Emperor. Literally conquered Persia and soldiered with his men. It is the little known men of history that make history great. Ave Carus!!
Imagine being a religious Roman of that period. You have a promising new emperor in an age of chaos and he gets stuck down by lightning.
What a bad comment as if 99% of Romans weren't religious at that time
@@DevoteeofThunor that's such a myth. I bet people were superstitious about things, but I bet if you had a legitimate census on such matters, you'd find that the same percentage of people would be agnostic or do not attend religious festivals as they do now.
@@DevoteeofThunorWeren’t religious? Where did you get that from? Rome was pagan & the army was always superstitious. Commanders & Generals would use their superstition to their advantage on many occasions
@@iDeathMaximuMII read my comment
@andrewpestotnik5495 we have good records on religion from that time, and true atheism was extremely rare, and agnosticism was rare too
_Carus the Thunderbolt, forever remembered for his Blitzkrieg campaign against Persia as well as his lightning fast reign. Here and gone._
Emperor Severus, what are you doing outside of Dovahhatty’s video?
_I am not beholden to that purple Brazilian Overlod. And I am still mad at him for cutting Roman history to a speedrun on the eve of the Muslim invasions!_@@billychops1280
@@septimiusseverus343 I too share your anger great emperor.
I love this series! Great work! Side note: Anyone else getting excited for Diocletian??
Finally you're back. Its been over 3 months. Keep going all the way through all the emperors. You can do it! You have a great project here that will be worth a lot eventually.
Truly a "Bright" emperor.🙂
This guys voice is the voice of a god 👌🏻🤙🏻
Another lovely video about the last of the third century emperors. Now onto the tetrarchy!
A thunderbolt killing Carus! Jupiter had a very good sense of humor!
This guy and his older son Carinus were decent as far as 3rd century Emps go. His younger son Numerian was killed off screen most likely by either his father in law Aper or Diocletian.
I will always have a negative look on Carus for the death of the Great Probus who maybe the most underrated Emperor of all time considering the situation he inherited and his ability to work with the Senate. Maybe there's no Diocletian.i think the empire is better with him
Great series!-I hope you will keep this going until at least the death of -Anastasius I Dicorus, who was an Eastern Roman emperor from 491 to 518. A career civil servant, he came to the throne at the age of 61 after being chosen by the wife of his predecessor, Zeno.
Having now watched all of the videos pertaining to the 3rd century crisis of the Roman empire, I must say that I am impressed with the depth of research, the excellent narrative and presentation, and the brilliant graphics. I am really looking forward to future videos on the 4th century Roman emperors, and possibly of videos on the most important Usurpers of the 3rd and 4th centuries, such as Carausius and Magnus Maximus, for example ? Great work, SPQR, and Roma Aeterna !!!
Glad you’re back man!
Great video thank you
It's marvelous to watch you again
Such an intense life...and such a great video!😍😍👍👍
The new map animation is stunning!
Short and sweet, happy new year now finally Diocletian
So Majorian next! The last heroic western emperor.
Let’s goooooo!!! Can’t wait until we get to Diocletian!
pleaseeee keep it going, enjoy your videos so much, by far my favourite history channel on yt because of your series, learning so much. Thanks and welcome back :)
I like how you broke down the Vandal sub tribes
Love this series, I watch this over a new 0-view Mr. Beast video.
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Who narrates this? It’s Gods Tier
I am thinking about Roman Empire everyday where is the next video???
I'd love to see a coop with Schwerpunkt
Our history is roman history !
Most likely he was sick, but was getting better and informed his generals of the upcoming campaign once he was on his feet. Then assassinated by generals who wanted to return home, used "lightning" to cover it up, burned the evidence by torching his tent. It's fairly obvious what happened based on the actions of the army directly after his death.
Love this series but I'm curious how far you intend on going with it. Constantine? Justinian? Heraclius? Constantine XI?
I'm looking forward to the video on Diocletian... he was also the first Emperor since Antoninus to rule for over 20 years... which given how short or brutal the reigns of previous Emperors had been since the reign of Marcus Aurelius, already seems like no easy feat... I wonder how long it will be, given Aurelian's reign was only 5 years, and the video covering him was almost an hour long...
YEAH THATS A MYSTERY
More more more there are more
Wow that’s how he died? what a shock 😂
Edward Gibbon says that Probus was slain by his own soldiers and then the army nominated Carus to the throne. You said that Crasus was nominated and then Probus was slained. Can you help me reconcile that?
huh legio IV? i thought it was destroyed in parthia/sryia 100 years ago?
It just doesn't work without Alexander Doddy. You've got to get him back, even if it's by blackmail. The new guy's voice doesn't fit at all.
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The Persians got powerful gods in their side. First, the Aurelian plague and now an emperor struck by a lighting plus all the battles the Romans lost.
Aurelian plague? You mean Cyprian plague
I mean the Antonine plague. It happened a century before the Cyprian plague.
poor carus he had a chance to surpass traians glory
Sorry to correct you , but Carus could NEVER have served in Legio IX Hispana because this legion had vanished over 100 years before he was born, during an unknown event in Britannia in circa 117 - 120 AD !!! p.s. I know that many historians have questioned the time and place of the disappearance of Legio IX Hispana, but I personally am convinced that it was indeed lost in a yet unknown tragedy in Britannia, as stated above.
I agree a tragedy took place and that legion was likely highly decimated but I think it's highly possible it survived and went on into the next century
Guess Jupiter didn’t like him.
why are the soldiers unwilling to cross further into persia there are a lot of treasure, waiting to be looted
Diocletian was a pretty good emperor but I don’t understand why he’d initially follow the younger brother as emperor but not the elder, ifmg Carinus had a bad personality and character
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