Monarchs of Roman Empire

At the Milvian Bridge 312, in hoc signo vinces, Constantine won the empire. The Edict of Milan 313 legalized Christianity, Nicaea ...

Octavian, Caesar heir, won Actium 31 BC against Antony and Cleopatra. He kept republican forms, princeps, first citizen, while hol...

The last of the five good emperors, Marcus wrote the Meditations in campaign tents on the Danube, private Stoic notes that became ...

Hadrian abandoned Trajan conquests, fixed defensible borders, the Wall in Britain, 73 miles, still standing. He traveled the empir...

Born in Hispania, Trajan was the first emperor from outside Italy. He conquered Dacia in two wars, commemorated by Trajan Column i...

Nero became emperor at sixteen, guided early by Seneca and Burrus. His reign darkened with the killing of his mother Agrippina in ...