The Antonines: The Roman Empire in TransitionThe Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman empire, controlling its huge machine for half a century of its most testing period. Edward Gibbon observed that the epoch of the Antonines, the 2nd century A.D., was the happiest period the world had ever known. |
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MARCUS AURELIUS | 39 |
MARCUS AURELIUS AND COMMODUS | 60 |
ANTONINE SPEAKING AND WRITING | 83 |
ANTONINE ARCHITECTURE AND ART | 128 |
THE ANTONINE AGE | 147 |
Index | 199 |