Dio Chrysostom, Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio, was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Eighty of his Discourses are extant, as well as a few l
Orations of Dio Chrysostom edited by Johann Jakob Reiske, 1784. Oration 1, ΠΕΡΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ (On Kingship)
Nerva was a Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dynasty.
Dio Chrysostom
…in the north and east of the Roman Empire. He thus visited Thrace, Mysia, Scythia, and the country of the Getae, giving orations. He was a friend of Nerva, and when Domitian was murdered in 96 AD, Dio used his influence with the army stationed on the frontier in favour of Nerva. Under Emperor Nerva's…
Plaster cast head portrait set in 1st-century statue, Chiaramonti Museum
Head of Nerva, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, 96-98 AD
The last remaining columns from the largely blind peristyle surrounding a temple to Minerva, located at the heart of the Forum of Nerva. The visible door frame is not an original element but rather one of the many modifications made during the Middle Ages.
Nerva as Jupiter, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen