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PersonAD 121 – AD 180

Marcus Aurelius

Last of the Five Good Emperors (r. 161–180), a Stoic philosopher who wrote the Meditations and fought the Germanic peoples on the Danube

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    AD 96 – AD 180Pax Romana and the Five Good Emperorsmonarch

    For about two centuries from Augustus the Roman Empire enjoyed peace without major wars. It reached its height under the Five Good Emperors, and its greatest extent under Trajan.

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  • Film: GladiatorDramatizedFilm · 2000 · Ridley Scott

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  • TrajanAD 53 – AD 117

    Second of the Five Good Emperors (r. 98–117) whose conquests of Dacia and Mesopotamia brought the empire to its greatest extent

  • Augustus63 BC – AD 14

    First Roman emperor (r. 27 BC – AD 14); as Octavian, Caesar’s adopted heir, he won at Actium and founded the principate

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  • Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476

    From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire