Nerva
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Sep 7, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
He comes to a violent end.
John BatchelorHOST
And Nerva, who probably was responsible for the assassination, then relieves the whole empire.
John BatchelorHOST
And then Trajan comes in and is a good emperor.
John BatchelorHOST
And the forts were meant to establish the limits of the frontier.
EmmaHOST
Domitian is assassinated in 96 CE.
EmmaHOST
Nerva then has a brief, weak reign and adopts Trajan.
EmmaHOST
And when Nerva dies, Trajan takes power.
EmmaHOST
And as a career soldier, he is looking for somewhere to prove himself.
EmmaHOST
Dacia, the place where Rome was humiliated, and also a place that is filled with gold and silver, is the perfect place for him to establish his power.
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Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The man known to history as Emperor Nerva was born Marcus Cocceius Nerva, most likely on the 8th of November in the year 30 AD.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Though sources suggest that the year of his birth was 35 AD, this is just the first of many details about Nerva's life for which we have either a lack of or conflicting evidence.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
While the year of his birth is debatable, we do know for certain that he was born in the village of Narni in the Umbria region of central Italy to the north of the city of Rome.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Nerva was named after his father, a prominent political figure within the early Roman Empire, one who was a member of the Roman Senate, the foremost political body of the state, and who served as consul, the highest office within the Roman government next only to that of the emperor, in 40 AD when Nerva was still a child.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The wider family, the gens cociae, were a plebeian family, meaning that centuries earlier they had been amongst the lower classes of the Roman Republic.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
However, many plebeian families had acquired immense wealth and prestige during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC as the expansion of the Roman state created opportunities for upward social mobility.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The Cotiae had been amongst those who benefited, and in the middle of the 1st century BC, the dying days of the Roman Republic, Nerva's great-grandfather had emerged as a rising political figure, gaining a place in the Senate and serving as governor of the province of Asia, one of the wealthiest provinces of the empire in the mid-30s BC.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
With him ended the line of the Flavian emperors, and he was also the last of the so-called Twelve Caesars, a name given them by the historian Suetonius.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
End of chapter 39 Chapter 40 The Five Good Emperors Nerva 96-98 Nerva was appointed by the Senate to succeed Domitian, and was the first emperor who did not owe his advancement to military force or influence.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
He associated with himself Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, then in command of the army on the Rhine.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Nerva ruled only sixteen months, but during that time he restored tranquillity among the people, conferring happiness and prosperity upon every class.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Trajan 98-117 Nerva was succeeded by Trajan, whose character has its surest guarantee in the love and veneration of his subjects, and it is said that long afterwards the highest praise that could be bestowed on a ruler was that he was more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
Trajan was a soldier, and if he lacked the refinements of a peaceful life, he was nevertheless a wise and firm master.
Tony RichardsonNARRATOR
He added to the empire Dacia, the country included between the Danube and the These, the Carpathians and the Pruth.
Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome-Sextus Julius Frontinus
Aug 25 · 11 Mentions
speaker_2NARRATOR
The administration of which Frontinus was a part was essentially one of municipal reform.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Nerva and Trajan alike aimed to correct the abuses and favoritism of the preceding regime.
speaker_2NARRATOR
They not only chose able and devoted assistants in their new policy, they themselves set good examples for imitation.
speaker_2NARRATOR
In Frontinus they found a loyal and zealous champion of the reforms.
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speaker_2NARRATOR
These four books were still further increased by additional examples interpolated here and there throughout the work.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Such is Gundermann's conclusion, resulting from his own investigations, added to those of Wachsmuth and Wolflin.
speaker_2NARRATOR
From internal evidence, Gundermann places the composition of the first three books between eighty-four and ninety-six, basing this inference upon references to the mission, who is repeatedly called Germanicus, a title not given to him until after his expedition against the Germans in eighty-three, and who is nowhere called Divus as is Vespasian in the Strategemata and Nerva in the De Aquis, so that the composition of the work evidently fell within the lifetime of the mission.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The dating of the fourth book is a matter of conjecture.
EmmaHOST
Trajan's often remembered as one of Rome's greatest military emperors, bringing the empire to its largest territorial extent and demonstrating the full potential of Rome's administrative and military machinery.
EmmaHOST
Trajan came to power following the relatively peaceful reign of Nerva, who had adopted him as heir to ensure a smooth succession.
EmmaHOST
Trajan was a skilled general before he became emperor, with experience on the Danube frontier and a reputation for discipline, courage and strategic insight.
EmmaHOST
These qualities made him well-suited to lead the empire, not just politically, but militarily.
Mike DHOST
Rome was creating dedicated, earmarked revenue funds from their own administration.
Mike DHOST
That's the real innovation in public finance, and hold onto that thread because this particular tax is gonna come back in an ugly way under his son Domitian and get reformed under Nerva.
Mike DHOST
So the fifth thing he did was he spent the windfall visibly.
Mike DHOST
The conquest of Judea produced a staggering one-time haul of plunder, the treasure of the temple, mass enslavements, and indemnities.
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Mike DHOST
The Senate, which loathed him, passed Damnatio Memoriae His name was chiseled off monuments across the empire, and his statues were melted down.
Mike DHOST
The Flavian dynasty was over, but the empire Domitian left behind had sound coinage, a well-paid army, and full granaries, and it was about to enjoy the best run of leadership in its history.
Mike DHOST
Despite the hiccups with Caligula and Nero, Rome was now coming off two very successful centuries of expansion, and the period from ninety-six to one eighty, the reigns of the so-called Five Good Emperors, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, represents Rome at its administrative and economic peak.
Mike DHOST
What made it work, ironically, was the absence of a dynasty.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Section 5 of the History and Literature of the Early Church The Age of the Apostolic Fathers, A.D. 96-117.
speaker_10NARRATOR
With the mild Nerva, after the murder of Domitian, AD 96, begins the series of what are sometimes known as the Five Good Emperors.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Nerva was succeeded, AD 98, by the Frank and soldier-like Trajan, to whom we reach, as ordinarily reckoned, the third persecution.
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The Persecution of Bithynia, Pliny and Trajan a correspondence preserved to us between pliny and the emperor serves as a flashlight to reveal the extraordinary progress made by christianity in certain parts of asia minor in the beginning of the second century pliny at the time a d one hundred and twelve was proconsul of the extensive province of bithynia pontus So widely spread was Christianity in this province that the temples were almost deserted, the sacred rites had long been suspended, and sacrificial victims could scarcely find purchasers.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The administration of which Frontinus was a part was essentially one of municipal reform.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Nerva and Trajan alike aimed to correct the abuses and favoritism of the preceding regime.
speaker_3NARRATOR
They not only chose able and devoted assistants in their new policy, they themselves set good examples for imitation.
speaker_3NARRATOR
In Frontinus they found a loyal and zealous champion of the reforms.
5 MINS LATER
speaker_3NARRATOR
These four books were still further increased by additional examples interpolated here and there throughout the work.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Such is Gundermann's conclusion, resulting from his own investigations, added to those of Wachsmuth and Wolflin.
speaker_3NARRATOR
From internal evidence, Gundermann places the composition of the first three books between 84 and 96, basing this inference upon references to Domitian, who is repeatedly called Germanicus, a title not given to him until after his expedition against the Germans in 83, and who is nowhere called Divus as is Vespasian in the Strategemata and Nerva in the De Aquis, so that the composition of the work evidently fell within the lifetime of Domitian.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The dating of the fourth book is a matter of conjecture.