CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Pescennius Niger, Gladiator, Antoninus Pius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Emperors: augustus pretty good, tiberius bad, gaius bad, claudius okay, nero bad. Emperors: vespasian good, titus really good, domitian bad. None of these emperors had any sons until marcus aurelius they all had to adopt their successors. Hadrian his adopted successor was l. aelius caesar, but he died before hadrian. Marcus aurelius last of the adoptive emperors, ended up having 14 children. Almost all of the adoptive emperors are considered really good emperors that part of. 2nd century ad is generally considered a golden age for the empire edward gibbon wrote that one would be hard-pressed to find a better period in the time of the romans for the people. It was not until marcus aurelius, the last of the adoptive emperors and this period, that. Augustus adds a great deal of land to the empire. Claudius filled in gaps, made britain a province. Trajan his conquests resulted in the empire achieving its greatest extent.