Welcome to Totalis Rankium.

This week, Maximus Dyer! Hello and welcome to Roman emperors, so tell us Rankium. I am Jamie.

And I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus, and this is episode 56.

It's Maximinus Dyer.

Oh, let's see if he lives up to his name.

Yes, he might well do.

We'll find out. Let's talk about his name before we start, shall we? Oh, please. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. He's known as Maximinus II, sometimes, after Thrax being the first. but he's also known as, and he will be preferred to as in this episode,

as Maximinus Dyer,

but also Maximinus Daza. Oh. Or Daza, maybe.

Daza. I've never heard anyone say it out loud. It's just spout D-A-Z-A.

That's Dazza.

Yes, Dazer, isn't it? His actual name when Emperor was Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximinus.

Nice and to the point.

I like Garnarius Valerius.

Oh, not a rhyming name.

Right, and for the life of me, I have, I just don't know why it's Dyer or Dazer. Oh, you just don't. No, none of the

books I have explained why Dyer or Dazer is there. Research on the internet revealed nothing.

I can have a fairly good solid guess. Thrax was called Thrax because he was from Thrace.

Dacia? That sort of reason, yes. You're looking Thrax because he was from Thrace. Dacia?

That sort of reason, yes.

You're looking at Dacia. That was roughly where he was born. So, yeah, I'm guessing that must be why it is. Well, let's say it is. We've made a decision. That's why he's going on to say. But I don't want to say that's definitely true. And for all the listeners to go, That's obviously because he owned a Dalmatian, you fool.

Okay, so let's make a start. He was born,

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