![]() ![]() ![]() At his death, in a decision that presaged the disastrous power-sharing arrangements of the later empire, Antoninus Pius bequeathed a shared authority to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (who died a natural death in a.d. 161180) the period ``during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.'' Grant looks carefully at this traditional view of the Antonine Pax Romana and points out that during Antoninus Pius's long rule there were disturbances in Greece, Britain, Dacia, Judaea, and Africa he also criticizes Pius's administration as static, backward-looking, and uncreative, though competent enough. Eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon considered the reigns of Antoninus Pius (a.d. ![]() 681, etc.) here critically examines the reigns of the Roman Empire's three Antonine emperors (a.d. The distinguished, prolific classical historian (Constantine the Great, p. ![]()
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