Roman Emperors

Pictures of 36 Roman emperors with names and dates.

12 Caesars

During the Julio-Claudian era, the Roman Empire was still new and imperial succession strategies were being worked out.

Pax Romana is the Latin for Roman peace.

Tetrarchy is the word we use to describe the division into four of the Roman Empire under the reign of Emperor Diocletian -- a man who knew how to delegate.

Names and dates of rule of the emperors from Augustus in 27 B.C. to Numerian (A.D. 285). Also see Part II on the names and dates of the (Western) Roman emperors from Diocletian (285) to Romulus Augustulus (476).

Visual aid to determining the chronologically of the Roman rulers of the third century A.D.

Table of the dates of the late Eastern and Western Roman emperors after Theodosius I.

Table of dates of the Roman Emperors after the fall of Rome in the West. The names and dates of Byzantine emperors.

Chapter X of Edward Gibbon' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian And Gallienus.

Justin D. Paola's list of the Roman emperors, their busts and any contributions they made to Roman art or architecture; also coin portraits.