After Hadrian’s death in 138 CE, his son, Emperor Antoninus Pius, assumed power. Around 140 CE he ordered a new defensive wall built further north (in modern-day Scotland), some 100 miles from ...

When his father died in early 138, Hadrian chose Antoninus Pius (86–161) as his successor. Antoninus was adopted by Hadrian on the condition that Verus and Hadrian’s great-nephew Marcus Aurelius was ...

Hadrian's strategy for a stable succession involved the adoption of Antoninus Pius as his heir, contingent on Antoninus ...

Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs between the the Rivers Clyde and Forth, extending Roman Britannia north from Hadrian's Wall. The wall was ...

Publius Cluvius Maximus Paullinus (died AD 157 or 158) was a Roman senator, who held a number of imperial appointments during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was suffect consul during an ...

Hadrian's successor as emperor, Antoninus Pius, pushed the frontier further north to the Forth/ Clyde isthmus and built his own wall, the Antonine Wall. This was built mainly for the prestige of ...

Following the death of Antoninus Pius in 161 CE ... Beards become an important feature of Roman imperial portraits beginning with the emperor Hadrian (r. 117–38 CE; see coin 21), who is thought to ...