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This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events, and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors.
List of contents
Introduction
PART I: The Julio-Claudian Emperors
1 Augustus
2 Tiberius
3 Caligula
4 Claudius
5 Nero
PART II: The "Year of the Four Emperors"
6 Galba
7 Otho
8 Vitellius
PART III: The Flavian Emperors
9 Vespasian
10 Titus
11 Domitian
PART IV: The "Five Good Emperors"/Antonines
12 Nerva
13 Trajan
14 Hadrian
15 Antoninus Pius
16 Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
17 Commodus
PART V: The Civil War of AD 193
18 Pertinax
19 Didius Julianus
PART VI: The Severan Emperors and Macrinus
20 Septimius Severus
21 Caracalla and Geta
22 Macrinus
23 Elagabalus
24 Severus Alexander
About the author
Brian K. Harvey, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University. He specializes and has published in Roman history and Latin epigraphy.
Sarah M. Harvey, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University. She is an active field archaeologist who has published about Roman and pre-Roman period excavations, and she currently co-directs a project in central Italy.
Summary
This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events, and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors.
