In the previous lecture, we saw the end of the Flavian dynasty with the death of Domitian. In this lecture, we pick up where we left off and begin with a new dynasty that would rule for 180 years, the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. The first five of these emperors were termed by Edward Gibbon “The Five Good Emperors.” The final emperor in this dynasty was an apple that would fall far from the tree, a man named Commodus, whose death, as we shall see, would put Rome on a path for civil war.
Rome 07: The Punic Wars
Rome 06: The Conquest of Italy
Rome 05: The Institutions of the Roman Republic
Rome 04 - The Mythical Origins of Rome
Rome 03: The Ancient Italian Peninsula
Rome 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Rome 01: Early Writing Cultures
Ancient Greece 22: The Achaean War
Ancient Greece 21: The Macedonian Wars
Ancient Greece 20: The Pyrrhic War
Ancient Greece 15: Hellenism
Ancient Greece 11: The Peloponnesian War
Ancient Greece 10: The Persian Wars
Ancient Greece 07: Sparta
Ancient Greece 06: Ancient Greek Geography and Military
Ancient Greece 05: The Polis
Ancient Greece 04: The Greek Renaissance
Ancient Greece 03: The Dark Ages and Homeric Society
Ancient Greece 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Greece 01 - Early Writing Cultures
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