Nerva

Nerva was Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98, succeeding Domitian after his assassination. His short reign is important because he adopted Trajan, beginning the succession pattern associated with the so-called Five Good Emperors.

In non-fiction, Nerva is discussed in L. J. Trafford’s Ancient Rome’s Worst Emperors. In L. J. Trafford’s Ancient Rome’s Worst Emperors, the selected cases include notorious figures such as Caligula, Commodus and Elagabalus alongside less predictable choices including Galba, Vitellius, Nerva, Gordian I and Valentinian II.