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