Domitian opens the year following the revolt…
90 CE
Domitian opens the year following the revolt by sharing the consulship with Marcus Cocceius Nerva, suggesting the latter had played a part in uncovering the conspiracy, perhaps in a fashion similar to the one he played during the Pisonian conspiracy under Nero.
Although little is known about the life and career of Nerva before his accession as Emperor in 96, he appears to have been a highly adaptable diplomat, surviving multiple regime changes and emerging as one of the Flavians' most trusted advisors.
His consulship may therefore have been intended to emphasize the stability and status quo of the regime.
The revolt had been suppressed and the Empire returned to order.
Hadrian, the future emperor, was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, or, less probably, in Rome,from a well-established family which had originated in Picenum in Italy and had subsequently settled in Italica, Hispania Baetica (the republican Hispania Ulterior), near the present-day location of Seville, Spain.
Although it is an accepted part of Hadrian's personal history that he was born in Spain, his biography in Augustan History states that he was born in Rome on January 24, CE 76, of a family originally Italian, but which had lived in Spain for many generations.
However, this may be a ruse to make Hadrian look like a person from Rome instead of a person hailing from the provinces.
His father was Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, who as a senator of praetorian rank would spend much of his time in Rome.
Hadrian's forefathers came from Hadria, modern Atri, an ancient town of Picenum in Italy, but the family had settled in Italica in Hispania Baetica soon after its founding by Scipio Africanus.
Afer was a paternal cousin of the future Emperor Trajan.
His mother was Domitia Paulina who came from Gades (Cádiz).
Paulina was a daughter of a distinguished Spanish-Roman Senatorial family.
Hadrian’s elder sister and only sibling is Aelia Domitia Paulina, married with the triple consul Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus; his niece is Julia Serviana Paulina and his great-nephew is Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino.
His parents died in 86 when Hadrian was ten, and the boy then became a ward of both Trajan and Publius Acilius Attianus (who was later Trajan’s Praetorian Prefect).
Hadrian was schooled in various subjects particular to young aristocrats of the day, and was so fond of learning Greek literature that he was nicknamed Graeculus ("Greekling").
Hadrian visits Italica when (or never leaves it until) he is fourteen years old, when he is recalled by Trajan, who thereafter looks after his development.
He soon becomes a favorite of Trajan's wife, Plotina.