TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Julian
TI  - Trajan: Optimus Princeps
T2  - Roman Imperial Biographies Ser
SN  - 9780203360569
AV  - DG294 -- .B46 1997eb 
U1  - 937/.07/092 B 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Florence
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Trajan, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 53-117.;Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.;Rome -- History -- Trajan, 98-117
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND MAPS -- PLATES -- OUTLINE OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PROLEGOMENON -- I THE MAKING OF A NEW ARISTOCRACY -- The Imperial System of Government -- The Equestrian Order -- The Senate -- II THE RISE OF THE ULPII -- Trajan's Career to 89 -- III IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CRISIS -- The Principate of Nerva -- IV DOMITIAN'S GENERAL, NERVA'S HEIR -- V THE NEW RULER -- VI A PUBLIC IDEOLOGY -- VII THE INAUGURATION OF A NEW ERA -- VIII DACICUS -- The Second Dacian War -- IX OPTIMUS PRINCEPS -- X LAW, FINANCE AND LITERATURE -- Finance -- Literature -- XI PATER PATRIAE -- Rome: Trajan's Buildings before 106 -- Rome: Trajan's Buildings after 106 -- XII 'REDACTA IN FORMAM PROVINCIAE…' -- Dacia -- Arabia -- XIII PARTHICUS -- XIV A PERFECT PRINCE? -- APPENDIX  DIO'S ACCOUNT OF THE DACIAN WARS -- The First Dacian War -- The Second Dacian War -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES -- GENERAL INDEX
N2  - Did 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? In this, the only biography of Trajan available in English, Julian Bennett rigorously tests the substance of this glorious reputation. Surprisingly, for a Roman emperor, Trajan comes through the test with his reputation relatively intact
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