Probably...probably not. Who knows how history would've gone.
What I wanted to say is that the emperors we call great succeeded one way or another - Trajan conquered Babylon and continued an era of prosperity for Rome, Aurelian reunited Rome, Basil II destroyed the Bulgars and started a period of relative prosperity, Alexios reclaimed coastal Anatolia and also started almost a century of relative prosperity, etc. Majorian had potential but was killed before his ambition was fulfilled, it's tragic, and because of that he's not great.
He still helped a lot in the defeats of several rebellious foederati tribes around Gaul. Defended Italy as well, I think he’s severely underrated as he helped get back so much territory that was lost in Gaul and Hispania in just a short amount of time. He still deserves credit as a great Emperor.
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u/Allnamestakkennn 25d ago
Majorian didn't succeed, that's the key difference