Trajan : optimus princeps : a life and times
In this, the only biography of Trajan available in English, Julian Bennett tests Trajan's reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues.
collective biographies
xvii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans, portrait s ; 25 cm.
9780415165242, 9780253332165, 0415165245, 0253332168
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The making of a new aristocracy
The rise of the Ulpii
Imperial expansion and crisis
Domitian's general
Nerva's heir
The new ruler
A public ideology
The inauguration of a new era
Dacicus
Optimus princeps
Law, finance and literature
Pater patriae
'Redacta in formam provinciae ... '
Parthicus
A perfect prince?
Dio's account of the Dacian Wars