| A | B |
| Augustus | longest ruling emperor |
| Tiberius | Praetorian Prefect Sejanus plotted against him |
| Caligula | made his horse Incitatus a senator |
| Claudius | wrote a history of the Etruscans, was the first emperor to be deified |
| Nero | Seneca was his tutor and advisior before Nero had him killed |
| Vespasian | began work on Colosseum |
| Titus | sacked Jerusalem |
| Domitian | Saturninus rebelled against him |
| Nerva | first emperor appointe by the senate |
| Trajan | first emperor born outside Italy |
| Hadrian | very attached to a handsome young man named Antinoous |
| Marcus Aurelius | wrote a book of Stoic philosophy calle the Meditiations |
| Didius Julianus | bought the empire at an auction in 193 AD |
| Lucius Verus | coruler with Marcus Aurelius |
| Caracalla | extended citizenship to citizens of the provinces |
| Aurelian | known as "Restitutor Orbis" -savior of the world |
| Philip the Arab | emperor when Rome celebrated it s 1000th anniversay |
| Valerian | first to die on captivity |