Julio-Claudian Rulers
Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Octavian/Augustus
• Advice from Senate• Governed difficult
provinces• Public projects• “Good old days”• Reformed army
– Training– Commanders– Benefits
Tiberius Caligula
Claudius
• permitted to become emperor due to physical and “mental” handicaps
• Added Britain to the empire
• Severe family problems
Nero
• Worst emperor of the Pax Romana
• Singer, musician• Fire destroyed much
of the city– Persecution of
Chrisitans– Selfish rebuilding
Legion Selected Emperors, 69 AD
Galba 7 months Otho 35 days Vitellius 4 months
Flavian Emperors
Vespasian Titus Domitian
Antonini “5 Good” Emperors
Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Antonius Pius
Marcus Aurelius
Nerva
• Law of Succession
Trajan
• Non-Italian emperor• Empire reached its
largest size• Dacia• Military-bureaucracy• public works
Hadrian
• Territorial withdrawals• Stabilized imperial
size• Hadrian’s Wall• Lived outside of
Rome• Jewish Revolt• Pantheon
Antonius Pius
Marcus Aurelius
• Last Pax Romana emperor
• Germanic wars• Stoic philosopher• “Meditiations”• Ended Law of
Succession by selecting Commodus, his son
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