PersonAD 53 – AD 117
Trajan
Second of the Five Good Emperors (r. 98–117) whose conquests of Dacia and Mesopotamia brought the empire to its greatest extent
Where they went
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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.
People who appear alongside
- Marcus AureliusAD 121 – AD 180
Last of the Five Good Emperors (r. 161–180), a Stoic philosopher who wrote the Meditations and fought the Germanic peoples on the Danube
- 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
Themes this person appears in
- 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