083- May His Bones Be Crushed

After returning to Italy in 134 Hadrian spent a final few miserable years trying to plan the long term future of the Imperial dynasty before dying in 138. 

Antoninus's reign is often pointed to as the golden age of the Roman Empire. In many ways the assessment is correct, though unresolved issues would come back to haunt his successors. 

The Roman world was divided between slaves, freedmen, and free citizens of every economic class. Gross inequality though was the order of the day, with the Emperor himself controlling the lion's share of the Empire's wealth. 

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Ottoman Empire, Elagabalus, Earliest gangbang, Sexual deviance, Pedophilia, Cow Vagina. 

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