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Twelve Caesars

The Adoptive Emperors

Severan

96 - 197 ad
NervaTh.jpg (1503 bytes)
Nerva
 TrajanTh.jpg (1559 bytes)
Trajan
 HadrianTh.jpg (1662 bytes)
Hadrian
 AntoninusTh.jpg (1682 bytes)
Antoninus
Pius		 MarcusTh.jpg (1663 bytes)
Marcus
Aurelius		 CommodusTh.jpg (1395 bytes)
Commodus
 LeghioXX.jpg (15418 bytes)
Civil War
193-197

After Domitian's assassination, Nerva was proclaimed emperor. To win over the army, he adopted Trajan as his heir, and his successors followed this precedent. The century of the Adoptive Emperors was Rome's Golden Age, when the wealthy Empire was  at peace or victorious in war. After his dissolute son Commodus succeeded Marcus Aurelius, the Golden Age ended in a bloody civil war.

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Nerva
96 - 98 a.d.
 

Trajan
98 -117 a.d.
 

Hadrian
117 - 138 a.d.
 

Antoninus Pius
138 - 161 a.d.
 

Marcus Aurelius
161 - 180 a.d.
 

Commodus
177 - 192 a.d.
 

Civil War
193 - 197 a.d.

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