Trajan: Optimus PrincepsDid Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate rulers? |
Contents
I THE MAKING OF A NEW ARISTOCRACY | 1 |
II THE RISE OF THE ULPII | 12 |
III IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CRISIS | 28 |
IV DOMITIANS GENERAL NERVAS HEIR | 43 |
V THE NEW RULER | 54 |
VI A PUBLIC IDEOLOGY | 64 |
VII THE INAUGURATION OF A NEW ERA | 75 |
VIII DACICUS | 87 |
XII REDACTA IN FORMAM PROVINCIAE | 164 |
XIII PARTHICUS | 186 |
XIV A PERFECT PRINCE? | 208 |
APPENDIX DIOS ACCOUNT OF THE DACIAN WARS | 217 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 222 |
NOTES AND REFERENCES | 226 |
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IX OPTIMUS PRINCEPS | 106 |
X LAW FINANCE AND LITERATURE | 120 |
XI PATER PATRIAE | 140 |
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accession administration adoption allowed already ancient Ancient Rome appointed Arabia Arch Armenia army Augustus auxiliary Bostra Caesar campaign career Claudius coinage coins Column command congiarium consul consular consulship Curia Dacian Danube death Decebalus denarii Dio Chrysostom Documents Domitian elected emperor empire Epit equestrian Eutr evidence example existing Fasti favour Flavian formal Forum frontier garrison governor Greek Hadr Hadrian Hist honour Iazyges imperial imperium inscription involved Italy known later least legatus legionary legions Lepper and Frere Lusius Quietus Maximus military Moesia Nabataean Nero Nerva ofthe Optimus originally Pannonia Parthamasiris Parthian perhaps period Pliny Ep Pliny Pan Pliny’s Plotina political praetor Praetorian Prefect principal probably provinces quaestor record restored Roman Rome Rome’s ruler seems senate senatorial Smallwood status Suet suggests Syria Tacitus territory Titus Traianus Trajan Trajan’s reign tribune Tropaeum Traiani Ulpia usually Vespasian victory