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Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Chronology book cover

1st Edition

Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Chronology

By Brian K. Harvey, Sarah M. Harvey Copyright 2025
716 Pages 108 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

716 Pages 108 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors. The names, titles, and portraits of the emperor appeared in a wide variety of public contexts, making them some of the most important means of... Read more

Introduction

PART I: The Julio-Claudian Emperors 

1 Augustus

2 Tiberius 

3 Caligula 

4 Claudius 

5 Nero

PART II: The "Year of the Four Emperors" 

6 Galba

7 Otho 

8 Vitellius

PART III: The Flavian Emperors

9 Vespasian

10 Titus

11 Domitian

PART IV: The "Five Good Emperors"/Antonines 

12 Nerva

13 Trajan 

14 Hadrian 

15 Antoninus Pius 

16 Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus

17 Commodus

PART V: The Civil War of AD 193

18 Pertinax

19 Didius Julianus

PART VI: The Severan Emperors and Macrinus 

20 Septimius Severus

21 Caracalla and Geta

22 Macrinus

23 Elagabalus

24 Severus Alexander

Biography

Brian K. Harvey, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University. He specializes and has published in Roman history and Latin epigraphy.

Sarah M. Harvey, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University. She is an active field archaeologist who has published about Roman and pre-Roman period excavations, and she currently co-directs a project in central Italy.

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