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Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
The period of the "Five Good Emperors" saw a successions of peaceful years and the Empire was prosperous. Each emperor of this period was adopted by his predecessor. The Nerva–Antonine dynasty was a dynasty of seven consecutive Roman Emperors who ruled over the Roman Empire from 96 to 192. These Emperors are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus ...
Roman Empire: 27 BC–1453 Augustus Basileus: List of Roman emperors: Empire of Nicaea: 1204–1261 Basileus: Empire of Trebizond: 1204–1461 Basileus: List of Trapezuntine emperors: Empire of Thessalonica: 1224–1242 Basileus: Latin Empire: 1204–1261 Imperator: Latin Emperor: Holy Roman Empire: 800–1806 Imperator: Holy Roman Emperor ...
"Imperial Elements in the Formula of the Roman Emperors during the First Two and a Half Centuries of the Empire". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 25: 19– 64. doi:10.2307/4238646. JSTOR 4238646. Heather, Peter (2005). The Fall of the Roman Empire. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-3304-9136-5; Hekster, Olivier (2022).
Barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire, showing the Battle of Adrianople. Meanwhile, the Eastern Roman Empire faced its own problems with Germanic tribes. The Thervingi, an East Germanic tribe, fled their former lands following an invasion by the Huns. Their leaders Alavivus and Fritigern led them to seek refuge in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Many consider Augustus to be Rome's greatest emperor; his policies certainly extended the empire's life span and initiated the celebrated Pax Romana or Pax Augusta. The Roman Senate wished subsequent emperors to "be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan". Augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not ...
Roman Empire in AD 117 at its greatest territorial extent, ... Households in the top 1.5% of income distribution captured about 20% of income.
Roman emperors to suffer posthumous denigration or damnatio memoriae (1 C, 17 P) T. Tetrarchy (3 C, 32 P) U. Roman usurpers (6 C, 2 P) W. Western Roman emperors (2 C)