I had not heard of any of the Four Emperors besides Vespasian before this. Probably the fact that the others ruled far less than a year made them less important to historians.
It's a very important point in Rome's history. Not only the end of the Julio-Claudian line, but the realisation that anyone can become emperor if they have a big enough army. Vespasian was a nobody, which is why Nero trusted him with so much power in the east.
I had not heard of any of the Four Emperors besides Vespasian before this. Probably the fact that the others ruled far less than a year made them less important to historians.
It's a very important point in Rome's history. Not only the end of the Julio-Claudian line, but the realisation that anyone can become emperor if they have a big enough army. Vespasian was a nobody, which is why Nero trusted him with so much power in the east.
And this is why the Roman Empire of the West would soon collapse, while the one in the East managed to endure for another thousand years...