...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...

...genannte Via Herdonitana (vgl. Hülsen, Aeclanum 444). 111 History l, chapter 3 (l, 103 Womersley): 'If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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, under the...

...Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. ... If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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...

...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...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...

...Antonine emperors, generally die second century of the Gregorian calendar, about which Gibbon wrote, "If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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...

...accession 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...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...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...

...Gibbon's picture of decline and fall, according to which the philosopher-emperor had presided over "the period in the history of the world, during which...of the human race was most happy and prosperous," whereas Constantine, by contrast, was thrown up during an age of barbarism and superstition which destroyed...

...empire— the period Gibbon singled out, with characteristic Eurocentric eloquence, as "the period of the history of the world during which the condition...of the human race was most happy and prosperous"— had begun. Whatever the manifest shortcomings of Gibbon's formulation, it is clearly relevant to Plutarch's...

...paras 1-2 and various passages) 'Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire in the Age oftheAntonines' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus [ie 96—180 AD]. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance...