Aelius Adopted Son Of Hadrian

Suffering from ill health, in AD 136 Hadrian looked to the question of succession and settled upon Lucius Ceionius Commodus, consul for that year, to succeed him. Lucius Aelius Caesar, as was his new official name, was lacking in military and administrative experience and so was granted tribunician power and sent to the Danube Frontier to govern Pannonia. However, he was destined never to succeed Hadrian, dying in AD 138 and leaving the ailing emperor heirless once more.

Following the scandal created in AD 130 when Hadrian was moved to establish a cult and mint coins in honour of his favourite Antinous, who had drowned in the Nile whilst touring the province with the emperor...

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