This man remade the frumentarii into a powerful secret police force to help support his frequent absences from Rome and employed Julius Severus as a military cure-all.
Busts of this ruler are often authenticated by the presence of a crease on the earlobe. This man remade the frumentarii into a powerful secret police force to help support his frequent absences from Rome and employed Julius Severus as a military cure-all. This emperor secured power concurrently with the mysterious death of Lusius Quietus and the not-so-mysterious executions of four powerful senators. The historian Suetonius cuckolded this husband of Sabina, who (*) deified the Greek youth Antinous after he drowned in the Nile. This Emperor commissioned the massive Temple of Venus and Rome after exiling his predecessor's architect Apollodorus, and faced the Bar Kochba revolt in Judaea before stipulating that his successor adopt Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius. Ruling as the third Good Emperor between Antoninus Pius and Trajan, for 10 points, name this Roman Emperor who built a namesake stone wall across Northern Britain.
Busts of this ruler are often authenticated by the presence of a crease on the earlobe.
Hadrian or Publius Aelius Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus