...Nerva in 98 CE to the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 cE, the age that Gibbon famously called 'the period in the history of the world during which the...of the human race was most happy and prosperous'. The borders were secure, the economy flourrshing, and the emperors just and mild. For once, the Roman...

...and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) 1974:Vol. 1, chap. 3, 84. 4 If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happpy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...the second century CE, "the period in the history of the world," says the historian Edward Gibbon, "during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous."22 A simplification, no doubt, but Rome's problems a generation or two later would make...

...looking back over the history of the world, described the period from Nerva to Marcus Aurelius as one in which "the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous" owing to the firmness, wisdom, and virtue of the emperors. TRAJAN (AD 98-117), "OPTIMUS PRINCEPS" When...

...fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. ... If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.27 Anthony Mann in his film laments the passing of such a society, as Gibbon had done before...

...Hülsen, Aeclanum 444). 111 History l, chapter 3 (l, 103 Womersley): 'If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus [sc. 98-180 n. Chr.]. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power,...

...post-Augustan Rome. THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS Hear Gibbon's judgment: "If a man were to be called upon to fix the period, in the history of the world, during which...without hesitation name that which elapsed from the accession of Nerva (AD 96) to the death of Aurelius (180). Their united reigns are possibly the only...

...second century of the Gregorian calendar, about which Gibbon wrote, "If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name diat which elapsed from the death of Domition to the accession of Commodus."3 Since that era was represented...

...of Nerva in 98 CE to the death of Marcus Aureliusin 180 CE, the age that Gihhon famously called 'the period in the history of the world during which the...of the human race was most happy and prosperous'. The horders were secure, the economy ilourishing, and the emperors Just and mild. For once, the Roman...

...Euphrates, its flourishing trade, its lively Greek intellectual life - the age which Gibbon called 'the period in the history of the world during which the...condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous' - even then we find too many expressions of unease about the situation of the Greek community within...