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Autore |
Bennett Julian |
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Titolo |
Trajan : optimus princeps / / Julian Bennett |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-37732-X |
1-134-70914-5 |
1-280-04621-X |
0-203-36056-7 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Collana |
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Roman Imperial Biographies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emperors - Rome |
Electronic books. |
Rome History Trajan, 98-117 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; II THE RISE OF THE ULPII; III IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CRISIS; IV DOMITIAN'S GENERAL, NERVA'S HEIR; V THE NEW RULER; VI A PUBLIC IDEOLOGY; VII THE INAUGURATION OF A NEW ERA; VIII DACICUS; IX OPTIMUS PRINCEPS; X LAW, FINANCE AND LITERATURE; XI PATER PATRIAE; XII 'REDACTA IN FORMAM PROVINCIAE...'; XIII PARTHICUS; XIV A PERFECT PRINCE?; APPENDIX DIO'S ACCOUNT OF THE DACIAN WARS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES AND REFERENCES |
BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES; GENERAL INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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