Modern reconstruction of Polykleitos' Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
Chronology
117: death of Trajan - accession of Hadrian
121 (April 26): birth of Marcus Aurelius
131 (December 15) : birth of Lucius Verus, in Rome
138 : death of Hadrian - accession of Antoninus
161 : death of Antoninus - simultaneous accession of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
162-166: victorious war against the Parthians
January 167: beginning of Lucius Verus' third consulship
  first part: end of March
  second part: the following day
April 167: capture of Aquileia by the Germans - departure of the emperors
  third part : eve of the emperors' departure
End of 167: return of the emperors
  part four: the day after the emperors' return
Autumn 168: second departure of the emperors to spend the winter in Aquileia, where they planned to gather all the forces at their disposal in order to push forward war operations the following spring. The plague broke out among their troops. (See the Antonine Plague article in Wikipedia)
January 169: the two emperors return to Rome. Not far from Altinum, on the road to Padua, Lucius Verus is struck down by a stroke (perhaps a consequence of the plague) and dies three days later. He was buried in Hadrian's mausoleum and proclaimed Divus by the Senate.
175: Avidius Cassius revolts in the East, murdered the same year by a centurion of his own troops
180: Marcus Aurelius dies in Sirmium on the Danube, where he was fighting - accession of Commodus, his son
Historical figures
Gaius Calvisius Statianus: born in the Verona region - in the palace administration, he held the office "ab epistulis Latinis", in charge of imperial correspondence in Latin (as opposed to Greek) - he was Prefect of Egypt from 169/170 to 176 - he was dismissed for his support of Avidius Cassius' revolt. Â
(NB: a certain Publius Calvisius is Marcus Aurelius' maternal grandfather).
Loukianos, "Lucian of Samosate", the great Greek writer of this period: born between spring 119 and spring 126 - in the entourage of Lucius Verus in Antioch during the war against the Parthians - in 171 departure for Alexandria, called by prefect C. Calvisius Statianus - 175 return to Athens (I have imagined his presence in Rome between two attested stays in Greece for the Olympic Games).
Marcus Ulpius Marcellus: family originally from Asia Minor, became Roman citizens under the reign of Trajan, himself of equestrian rank - jurist, member of the council of Antoninus the Pious and Marcus Aurelius - wrote several works: De offocio consulis (5 books), Responsa (1 book), Digesta (31 books, in the 160s)
Postumus Fronto: grandson of Cornelius Fronto, one of Marcus Aurelius' mentors
The title of "monoboles" is mentioned in the biography (History Augustus) of another emperor, Heliogabalus.
The layout of the Euphorion's baths was strongly inspired by the Stabies baths in Pompeii.
