SECOND CENTURY.
Reading edition
Emperors.
A.D.
Trajan—(continued.) Third Persecution of the Christians.
117.Adrian. Fourth Persecution of the Christians.
138.Antoninus Pius.
161.Marcus Aurelius.
180.Commodus.
193.Pertinax—Didius, and Niger—Defeated by
193.Septimius Severus.
Authors.
Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Suetonius, Juvenal, Arrian, Ælian, Ptolemy, (Geographer,) Appian, Epictetus, Pausanias, Galen, (Physician,) Athenæus, Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Tatian, Irenæus, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement Of Alexandria, Marcion, (Heretic.)