Roman Emperor

Constantine the Great (I) was an Emperor of the Roman Empire from 306-324 A.D. and The Emperor of the Roman Empire from 324 until his death in 337. One of the few Roman Emperors to be considered great, Constantine reigned during a period of great upheaval in the Empire, but still managed to enact reforms and stabilize the state, thus on these bases, he was an exemplary ruler. Constantine came to power first as the Caesar of the Western Empire in 305 A.D. when his father Constantius was raised to…

The Roman Empire is Falling Down, Falling Down In 476 C.E. the Roman Empire fell, however the Pax Romana during 27 B.C.E to 180 C.E. was the prime of the empire and it would not be believable that this empire would fall. During this time there was a stable form of government, prosperity, a strong army, and happy citizens. The Pax Romana was considered the peak of the growing empire because afterwards there were signs of a slow decline. This eventually led to the fall of the Roman Empire. The…

ranks of Roman politics and military, partly due to his relationship with Trajan. After Hadrian's father died in 85 AD, Hadrian was entrusted to the care of two men. One of them, a cousin of his father, later became emperor Trajan. As an adopted son of Trajan, Hadrian would go on to rule the Roman Empire from 117 CE to 138 CE, a time that was still considered in the Pax Romana. Hadrian, one of the “Five Good Emperors”, was a…

The history of the Roman Empire spans several centuries, starting with the disintegration of the Roman Republic, as a result of civil wars, until 476 AD, the year of the last emperor of Rome (Gibbon 1829). The Roman Republic (res publica meaning "public affairs") is the conventional term used to define the Roman state and its provinces since the end of the Kingdom of Rome in 509 BC. The Republic lasted until the establishment of the Roman Empire in 27 BC. The Empire was a consequence of the…

Roman civil war happened caused by the slave group in late Roman Republic to complete political power and the establishment of military dictatorship. Caesar had occupied Rome and the civil war began. Later, Caesar defeated two other opponents. He practiced personal dictatorship, soon Caesar was assassinated and alliance with Augustus. Augustus is the final winner and the civil war came to an end. He established the Roman Empire. In fact, the civil war played an important role in promoting the…

The Roman Empire was established after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 27 B.C.E. Every emperor, starting with Augustus, brought something new to the table that is the impressive Roman Empire, that stretched throughout most of the Western world. The third to come to power after the murder of Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, more commonly known as Caligula, may easily be one of the most mad of them all. Gaius Caesar was born on August 31 in the year 12 C.E to his father Germanicus…

This is what it was like for most Romans from about 50 BCE until the year of 200 CE. At this time, Rome was the superpower of the Mediterranean World and Rome’s territory, wealth and popularity were well known (Background Essay). Although Rome was prospering, it was slowly starting to fall apart due to poor leadership, a weak military and invasion of outsiders. Poor leadership was a big contributing factor to the fall of the Roman Empire. 12 out of the 19 emperors that ruled Rome were…

Through this reading, Norman states that the Arch of Titus is a narrative memorial recording the Roman triumph and apotheosis. It is so immersive that the spectators can experience the events when they pass through. Further, she claims that there is a close connection between the two spectacles. She argues that the deification of the emperor in the apotheosis is based on his triumph. Norman makes a convincing argument about the link between the triumph and the apotheosis. She uses textual source…

“ Neither the Han nor the Roman empire emerged through a sudden, unexpected revolution”. The Han empire was controlled by Shi Huangdi was a chinese monarch who was awed by his advisors by the scale of his success. while there was also the great empire of Rome that was controlled by Octavian who later went under the new name Augustus who like Shi Huangdi became a monarch both had multiple achievements while rule their empires and both used this titles and justified their actions because of their…

Pantheon is a prominent symbol of the Roman Empire in its advanced structural design shown through its incredible unsupported dome, rich elements of history such as being consecrated into a church to save the structure, and the Roman people’s manic devotion to religion. Located in Rome, Italy, the Pantheon was built by Marcus Agrippa and designed by Apollodorus of Damascus in 125 AD. The Pantheon has always had a rich connection to the divine as it was formerly a Roman temple dedicated to gods…