98-117 AD - Trajan reigns. Trajan's reign takes Rome one more step toward universality. Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax ...

Timeline: Bringing Water to Rome The Caracalla Baths, depicted in this 19th-century engraving, opened in A.D. 217. Thanks to the aqueduct, free public access to baths became a highly valued ...

This head of the emperor Augustus was originally part of a statue in Egypt. The Romans used statues to remind the empire's largely illiterate population of the power of the emperor. Augustus is ...

He sets about portraying his reign as one that introduces a moral, as well as political and cultural, renaissance in Rome. He is a genuine believer in the Mos Maiorum ("the custom of the ...