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84Roman Emperor - Caligula
Roman emperor, son of Germanicus and successor to Tiberius in AD 37. Caligula was a cruel tyrant and was assassinated by an officer of his guard. He is believed to have been mentally unstable.
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89Roman Dictator - Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman and one of the world's greatest military commanders. Caesar dominated the history of Rome during the final years of the republic.
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80Roman Emperor - Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius has symbolised, for many generations, the Golden Age of the Roman Empire. A conscientious and self-sacrificing emperor, his claim to the attention of subsequent ages has been greater because, with the exception of Cicero, he is one of the few figures of classical antiquity whose individual personality can still be apprehended through his writings: The Meditations, or 'soliloquies', and some of his private correspondence.
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86Roman Emperor - Trajan
The Roman emperor Trajan was important for extending the empire's frontiers to include Armenia, Dacia and also Mesopotamia. Many scenes from the emperor's campaign in Dacia are recorded on Trajan's column in Rome, the base of which is inscribed with reliefs of captured arms while a long, continuous spiral relief winds up around the column commemorating the campaign. A strong willed man who was ambitious for power and military glory, Trajan concentrated on both strengthening and consolidating the
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83Roman Emperor - Titus
Roman emperor from AD 79. Eldest son of Vespasian, he captured Jerusalem in 70 AD to end the Jewish revolt in Roman Palestine. He completed the Colosseum, and helped mitigate the suffering from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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85Roman Emperor - Vespasian
Born near Reaste, a city northeast of Rome. His full name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus. He became a general and in 67 AD Emperor Nero sent him to put down a Jewish rebellion in Judea. During the year after Nero's death (68 AD) Generals Galba, Otho and Vitellius followed one another as emperor. Finally, Vespasian's troops proclaimed him emperor in 69 AD and he went to Rome. There the Senate passed the Lex de imperio Vespasinai, the first written statement of the powers of a Roman emperor. He was
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71Roman Emperor - Magnus Maximus
Born in Spain. Maximus proclaimed himself emperor while commanding Roman troops in Britain, defated Emperor Gratian in Gaul (383), and was recognized by Theodosius, emperor of the East. Invading Italy, his troopers were defeated, and he himself besieged by Theodosius and beheaded. Died in Aquileia, Italy 388.
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83Roman Emperor - Hadrian
Hadrian's official name was Publius Aelius Hadrian. He was born in Spain. His father died during Hadrian's youth, and Trajan, Hadrian's cousin, became his guardian. Trajan became emperor in 98. Hadrian became emperor after Trajan's death in 117.
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72Roman Dictator: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Roman general and politician, a leader of the senatorial party. Forcibly suppressing the democrats in 88BC, he departed for a successful campaign against Mithridates VI of Pontus. The democrats seized power in his absence, but on his return Sulla captures Rome and massacred all opponents. The reforms he introduced as dictator, which strengthened the Senate, were backward-looking and short-lived.
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94Roman Emperor - Tiberius
Tiberius, Roman emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Born Rome, Italy, 16 November 42 BC. The son of Tiberius Claudius Drusus and Livia Drusilla who in 39 BC divorced her husband to become the wife of Augustus....
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