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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8046847, member: 128351&quot;]Thanks for the answer to my questions, especially [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I understand that this term of &quot;the 5 good emperors&quot; is used mostly in the Anglo-Saxon cultural sphere, a 2 centuries old tradition established on Gibbon&#039;s authority. Well... there have been several generations of scholars, historians, classicists since Gibbon&#039;s time, and our vision of the Roman imperial regime and of the individual emperors may have evolved. </p><p>Adoptive emperors seems more accurate, but Tiberius and Nero were adopted, too. I prefer the dynastic option, like in Egypt. Julio-Claudian dynasty (from Caesar or Augustus to Nero), Flavian, Antonine, Severian dynasties. After 235 it is another story, I admit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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