The "Five Good Emperors" of the Roman Empire (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 96 to 180 CE, an era often regarded as Rome's golden age. This period is ...

It was the year 160 AD when Appius Annius Atilius Bradua filed a complaint before the Roman Senate regarding the murder of his sister. The direct perpetrator of the crime was a freedman named ...

It is likely that he and all the other persecuted Stoics would have smiled if they had known that, shortly afterward, Marcus Aurelius, the adopted son of Antoninus Pius and a Stoic student of teachers ...

The first was Emperor Lucius Verus, who ruled alongside Gladiator 's Marcus Aurelius. The two ruled as co-Emperors as they ...

This fortification, which Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of in 140 CE, marked the northern border of the Roman Empire, but it didn’t actually do much to keep the empire safe.

He was the adopted son of Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor from 138 to 161, and it is said that Lucius was an outstanding student who had poetry as one of his great hobbies.

Soon after Antoninus Pius died, the new emperor, Marcus Aurelius, moved the frontier back to Hadrian’s Wall, where it remained until the end of Roman rule in Britain nearly 250 years later.

Marcus Aurelius' ascent to Caesar was meticulously orchestrated within the complex web of Roman politics. Born to a prominent family, his destiny was shaped early on by Emperor Hadrian, who saw ...

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After Hadrian’s death in 138 CE, his son, Emperor Antoninus Pius, assumed power. Around 140 CE he ordered a new defensive wall built further north (in modern-day Scotland), some 100 miles from ...

(This Roman emperor believed he was a god. He was assassinated for it.) Imperial portraitA Roman gold coin minted in 153-154 depicts a profile of the bearded emperor Marcus Aurelius.