Cassius Dio records that this ruler presided over a huge plague which swept out of Egypt after his armies sacked Ctesiphon.
Cassius Dio records that this ruler presided over a huge plague which swept out of Egypt after his armies sacked Ctesiphon. This husband of Faustina the Younger was tutored by Fronto. This leader went personally to the river Gran to fight against the Quadi on his frontier. A bronze image of this leader extends his hand outwards in the only equestrian statue to survive antiquity intact. This sometime co-ruler with Lucius Verus and successor of Antoninus Pius outlined his Stoic philosophy in his Meditations. For 10 points, name this man succeeded by his biological son Commodus, the last of Rome's Five Great Emperors.
Cassius Dio records that this ruler presided over a huge plague which swept out of Egypt after his armies sacked Ctesiphon.
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus [accept Lucius Verus during the first sentence, since they were co-rulers until Lucius Verus died, probably of said plague] 