In the view of the Greek historian Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor Commodus in 180 AD marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"[23]—a famous comment which has led some historians[ attribution needed ], notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.
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Roman Empire - Wikipedia espasian became the founder of the brief Flavian dynasty, to be followed by the Nerva–Antonine dynasty which produced the "Five Good Emperors": Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and the philosophically-inclined Marcus Aurelius. <span>In the view of the Greek historian Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor Commodus in 180 AD marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron" [23] —a famous comment which has led some historians [attribution needed] , notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. [citation needed]
In 212, during the reign of Caracalla, Roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. But despite this gesture of universality, the Severan
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