What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

The five good emperors were Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, all of whom succeeded one another and whose period of prosperity was ended by the problematic Emperor Commodus.

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning ...

Today’s government hopes its own such plan will succeed. By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address ...

The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have ...

Some scorpion species are much safer than others. The list of reasonably safe species includes the emperor scorpion. In some parts of the world, these creatures are pests, but they’re also kept ...

Addressing the French Senate, Claude Malhuret, leader of France’s centre-right party, called Donald Trump a “dictator”, and compared him to Nero, the infamous brutal emperor of ancient Rome.