Second Century
| 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.)