NERVA

(Marcus Cocceius Nerva)nûrˈvə, c.a.d. 30–a.d. 98, Roman emperor (a.d. 96–a.d. 98). He had an honorable career as a statesman at Rome, and his reputation was blameless. At the death of Domitian he was chosen emperor by the senate in a strong movement toward constitutionalism and senatorial influence and away from hereditary succession. Nerva, a kind, paternal figure, reformed the land laws in favor of the poor, revised taxation, and tolerated the Christians. His greatest achievement was to adopt Trajan and name him as successor. This assured an orderly transfer of power when Nerva died after fifteen months in office.

See B. W. Henderson, Five Roman Emperors (1927).

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Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis AD 96-99
Book by John D. Grainger; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Nerva--Emperor Of Rome--Ca. 30-98, Rome--History--Antonines, 96-192
NERVA AND THE ROMAN SUCCESSION CRISIS OF AD 96-99 NERVA AND THE ROMAN SUCCESSION CRISIS OF AD 96-99 John D. Grainger...Cataloging in Publication Data Grainger, John D., 1939- Nerva and the Roman succession crisis AD 96-99/John D. Grainger...
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The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary
Book by A. N. Sherwin-White; Clarendon Press, 1966
Subjects: Pliny--The Younger--Correspondence, Pliny--The Younger--Criticism And Interpretation
...Garzetti, C., Inc. A. Garzetti, Nerva , Rome, 1950; numbers in the list of...strong probability, and fit the time of Nerva better than that of Trajan. Ep. 5, the...Domitian, or by many months from that of Nerva, and it is now known that Corellius was...
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Marvels of Ancient Rome
Book by Margaret R. Scherer, Charles Rufus Morey; Phaidon Press, 1955
Subjects: Architecture--Rome, Rome (Italy)--Description--Views
...Diocletian 98 The Forum of Nerva 101 The Forum and Column...of Victor Emmanuel. The forums of Caesar, of Augustus, of Nerva, and of Trajan, were excavated; the Theatre of Marcellus was...
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Trajan: Optimus Princeps: A Life and Times
Book by Julian Bennett; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Rome--History--Trajan, 98-117, Trajan--Emperor Of Rome--53-117
...September Death of Domitian, accession of Nerva 97 September ?Trajan victorious...campaign against the Suebi. On hearing the news, Nerva adopts Trajan in absentia with the names Nerva Caesar 25 October Nerva formally...
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Aspects of Roman History, AD 14-117
Book by Richard Alston; Routledge, 1998
...9 Nerva and Trajan AD 96-117 191...Documents Illustrating the Principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian, Cambridge. Smallwood...references date him to the reigns of Domitian, Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. He is alleged to have...
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journal articles on: Nerva  - 17 results

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To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket
Journal article by Rick W. Sturdevant; Air Power History, Vol. 51, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket (Book)--Book reviews
...8131-2267-8 Termination of the Rover/NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application...nuclear rockets evolution, examines Rover/NERVA from several inextricably linked perspectives...to comprehend more thoroughly the Rover/NERVA story. Dewar, who worked exclusively...
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Science in Flux: NASA's Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955-2005
Journal article by Steven A. Pomeroy; Air Power History, Vol. 54, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Science in Flux: NASA's Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955-2005 (Book)--Book reviews
...Nuclear Engine Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) program. Planned for interplanetary solar system exploration, the NERVA launch vehicle would have utilized a nuclear...Plum Brooks staff ably handled. Although NERVA and the nuclear bomber were important...
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Lost in the Fold: Space and Subjectivity in Gerard De Nerval's "Genealogie" and Sylvie
Journal article by Patrick M. Bray; French Forum, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Genealogie (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Nerval, Gerard de--Criticism and interpretation, Nerval, Gerard de--Works, Space and time--Portrayals, Space--Portrayals, Subjectivity--Portrayals, Sylvie (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...name back to the twelfth Roman emperor, Nerva. The literary/textual name Nerval links...Next to the toponym "Terre de Nerval ou Nerva" is the word "granit," which provides a...plant that links Nerval (or the emperor Nerva) to Rome. The map in the lower right hand...
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Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture
Journal article by John Pollini; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006
Subjects: Italy--History, Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Portraits--Criticism and interpretation, Varner, Eric R.--Authorship
...Domitians face was cut out and that of Nerva grafted on (pp. 120-22, fig. 123a-b), a...and official damnation into an image of Nerva (p. 117, fig. 161a-e). Given the compromises...of the fourteen surviving portraits of Nerva as having been recut from images of Domitian...
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The Machiavellian Chiron: Appearance and Reality in 'The Prince.'
Journal article by James A. Arieti; CLIO, Vol. 24, 1995
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Analysis, Renaissance--Literature, The Prince (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...those who lived in the opposite way. He will see that Titus, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus, and Marcus did not need the praetorian...succeeded through adoption were all good, such as the five from Nerva to Marcus; when the Empire fell to hereditary heirs, it resumed...
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Domitian and the Dynamics of Terror in Classical Rome
Magazine article by Peter Wiseman; History Today, Vol. 46, September 1996
Subjects: Despotism--Analysis, Domitian, Emperor of Rome--Evaluation, Roman emperors--Political activity, Roman law--Social aspects, Rome (Ancient)--Politics and government
...emperor -- the elderly senator Cocceius Nerva -- was ready and waiting, and took up office...Praetorian Guard mutinied, and compelled Nerva to surrender the men responsible for the...foully mutilated before they strangled him. Nerva was forced to announce to the Roman people...
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Rome's Dark Night of Tyranny: When the Republic Fell, Rome Entered the Dark Decline of Empire. Only after Centuries of Misery under Predominantly Tyrannical Emperors Did Rome Finally Meet Its End
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Roman culture--Analysis, Roman culture--History
...consumed in the holocaust of empire. Beginning with the emperor Nerva and continuing with Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus, and Marcus Aurelius...had incubated the likes of Caligula and Nero. The virtues of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines appear magnified by...
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Gerard De Nerval's "Chimeras"
Magazine article by Daniel Mark Epstein; New Criterion, Vol. 19, December 2000
Subjects: Christ on the Mount of Olives (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., De Nerval, Gerard--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Les Chimeres (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature and history--Analysis, Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religion and literature--Analysis
...family tree. Like those who discover past lives through hypnosis, Gerard fancied that he was descended from the Roman emperor Nerva, via relatives of Napoleon. So, the voice of "The Chimeras" is not merely that of the mortal Labrunie, it is also the voice...
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Lessons from Juvenal
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003
Subjects: Juvenal--Attitudes, Juvenal--Works, Latin literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satirists--Attitudes, Satirists--Works
...became by the end of his reign--a paranoid, murderous tyrant. If Juvenal was exiled, he might well have been recalled when Nerva became emperor in 96 and issued a sort of general amnesty for those exiled by Domitian. The sixteen Satires--we possess a full...
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No Soane Unturned
Magazine article by David Bates; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Architecture, British--Appreciation, Italy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Painting, British--Exhibitions, Soane, John--Works, Turner, J.M.W.--Exhibitions
...contemporaries could be regarded as almost irrelevant by these nineteenth-century tourists. This can also be seen in his `Forum of Nerva (1825-30) which depicts decaying ruins looming over the Italian folk; indicating the daunting legacy of the Roman Empire as...
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Passers of the Licensure Exams for Midwifery
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 17, 2005
...QUICYRENE QUINTO ABUD, GIRLIE BERNALES ACABAL, RITCHELLE DORIO ACAS, IRENE MOLAS ACOBA, JOAN MACAPUNIT ACOSTA, LEAH SOLIVEN ACOYMO, NERVA TADI-IN ADALID, MARIDEL FORTALIZA ADLAON, JONNA MAE ABETO ADOLFO, CRIS SANTIAGO ADOVAS, MARIBEL ESTOLOGA AFALLA, JOVELYN BARUT...
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Passers of the Licensure Exams for Midwifery
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 18, 2005
...QUICYRENE QUINTO ABUD, GIRLIE BERNALES ACABAL, RITCHELLE DORIO ACAS, IRENE MOLAS ACOBA, JOAN MACAPUNIT ACOSTA, LEAH SOLIVEN ACOYMO, NERVA TADI-IN ADALID, MARIDEL FORTALIZA ADLAON, JONNA MAE ABETO ADOLFO, CRIS SANTIAGO ADOVAS, MARIBEL ESTOLOGA AFALLA, JOVELYN BARUT...
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Passers of the Licensure Exams for Midwifery
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 15, 2005
...QUICYRENE QUINTO ABUD, GIRLIE BERNALES ACABAL, RITCHELLE DORIO ACAS, IRENE MOLAS ACOBA, JOAN MACAPUNIT ACOSTA, LEAH SOLIVEN ACOYMO, NERVA TADI-IN ADALID, MARIDEL FORTALIZA ADLAON, JONNA MAE ABETO ADOLFO, CRIS SANTIAGO ADOVAS, MARIBEL ESTOLOGA AFALLA, JOVELYN BARUT...
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Passers of the Licensure Exams for Midwifery
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 20, 2005
...QUICYRENE QUINTO ABUD, GIRLIE BERNALES ACABAL, RITCHELLE DORIO ACAS, IRENE MOLAS ACOBA, JOAN MACAPUNIT ACOSTA, LEAH SOLIVEN ACOYMO, NERVA TADI-IN ADALID, MARIDEL FORTALIZA ADLAON, JONNA MAE ABETO ADOLFO, CRIS SANTIAGO ADOVAS, MARIBEL ESTOLOGA AFALLA, JOVELYN BARUT...
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Passers of the Licensure Exams for Midwifery
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 16, 2005
...QUICYRENE QUINTO ABUD, GIRLIE BERNALES ACABAL, RITCHELLE DORIO ACAS, IRENE MOLAS ACOBA, JOAN MACAPUNIT ACOSTA, LEAH SOLIVEN ACOYMO, NERVA TADI-IN ADALID, MARIDEL FORTALIZA ADLAON, JONNA MAE ABETO ADOLFO, CRIS SANTIAGO ADOVAS, MARIBEL ESTOLOGA AFALLA, JOVELYN BARUT...
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Nerva
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
NERVA (Marcus Cocceius Nerva)nur v , c.a.d. 30 a.d. 98, Roman emperor (a.d. 96 a.d. 98). He had...constitutionalism and senatorial influence and away from hereditary succession. Nerva, a kind, paternal figure, reformed the land laws in favor of the poor...
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Nirvana
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
NIRVANA nerva n , in Buddhism , Jainism , and Hinduism , a state of supreme liberation and bliss, contrasted to samsara or bondage in...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...commander, 69 Titus, son of Vespasian, 79 81 Domitian, son of Vespasian, 81 96 Nerva, elected interim ruler, 96 98 Trajan, adopted son of Nerva, 98 117 Hadrian, ward of Trajan, 117 38 Antoninus Pius, adopted by Hadrian, 138 61...
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Dio Chrysostom
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...under Emperor Domitian, who subsequently banished him. He traveled widely, finally returning to Rome in the favor of emperors Nerva and Trajan. He leaned toward the philosophy of the Cynics and Stoics. With Plutarch he shared in the revival of Greek literature...
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Tacitus , Roman Historian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...of Pliny the Younger and married the daughter of Cnaeus Julius Agricola. In a.d. 97 he was appointed substitute consul under Nerva, and later he was proconsul of Asia. The first of his works was the Dialogus dialogue, a discussion of oratory in the style...
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