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.

Nerva was born in Narni and died in Gardens of Sallust. Nerva also held the offices or ranks of Roman emperor and Roman consul. Nerva belonged to the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and operated within Ancient Rome.

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. Ancient histories, senatorial hostility and posthumous propaganda are tested rather than accepted at face value.