Nerva
Nov 23, 2005
The place of M. Cocceius Nerva in history is largely that of an intermediary, filling the vacuum following the fall of Domitian and setting the stage for a golden era of Roman history as the first of the ’5 Good Emperors’. Born between AD 30 and 35 of a richly traditional consular family, little of Nerva’s early life is known, but the prestigious family had played key roles in both late Republican and early Imperial politics…
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