Why were the emperors after Augustus unpopular with the Roman people? Module 10 Lesson 4

Augustus was one of the fewest politicians really superb in his job. The skills he had in the political area were more than outstanding. at 18 years old he was able to fool a skillful politician like Cicero. He was able to find a super military chief like Agrippa and get his support to win civil wars, rather than being killed by him and the army. So I would say that acting like Augustus it was not that simple example to follow that appeared in your question. I do not think I can Arrive at naming five emperors that arrived close to him.

B) The unpopular emperors that we know today, were usually not that unpopular at all in their times, at least to real people. The problem is that the writers of Roman history were linked to senatorial clans, and Senate hated all emperors, including Augustus. Caligula was hated more than others because he wanted to dismiss the senatorial power and create a real imperial power like we know today (at the time what we call emperor was called Princeps, I.e. the most influential senator in Senate, he had real power, but from the formal point of view) If we take Nero, we have another example of an emperor considered unpopular today, but that was simply loved by people during his reign. For several years after his death, pretenders pop out claiming to Be Nero and were followed by people. Again, people did not write books, but Suetonius did, and Suetonius was writing for emperors Trajan or Hadrians and needed to give a black version of the conflict between Caligula, Nero or Domitian and Senate to magnify the beauty of his emperors times.