Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

In article <XnsB3225ACC58399mmikedacomcastnet@85.12.62.254>,
 Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote:

ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote in
news:me1vieF4e2aU1@mid.individual.net:
 

In article <9mfn7kp293qk8deovljv09rnrin7mmjecp@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

(Snip)

>
Nero was followed by four emperors in the next year (12 months):
Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.
>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors>
>

(Snip, re inheritance of Empire in Rome)

 
Adopted sons were best.  (And the Romans had a tradition of
adult adoption).

 
If you exclude adult adoption, I don't think there IS an example of
"son succeeding father for several generatioons" in the Roman
empire.  At least if you require "several" to be more than two.  I
THINK there's at least one case of two.
 
(And I haven't systematically checked whether there's a "several"
in the Eastern Roman empire but from what I've seen there doesn't
seem to be a lot of "several" there either.)

The Macedonian Dynasty (c. 9th-11th Centuries) did last several
generations, albeit with some hiccups (BTW, while that period wasn't the
focus of Turtledove's PhD dissertation, he has written 2 fantasy
trilogies that were inspired by the Macedonian Dynasty).

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