02979nam 2200697Ia 450 991082372420332120200520144314.01-60563-265-11-134-70913-70-203-37732-X1-134-70914-51-280-04621-X0-203-36056-710.4324/9780203360569 (CKB)1000000000255701(EBL)180101(OCoLC)56756930(SSID)ssj0000284950(PQKBManifestationID)11231291(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284950(PQKBWorkID)10278660(PQKB)11123800(MiAaPQ)EBC180101(Au-PeEL)EBL180101(CaPaEBR)ebr10097437(CaONFJC)MIL4621(OCoLC)826515019(PPN)183009304(EXLCZ)99100000000025570120000731d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTrajan optimus princeps /Julian BennettSecond edition.London Routledge19971 online resource (348 p.)Roman Imperial BiographiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-24150-2 0-415-16524-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and indexes.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 REFERENCESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES; GENERAL INDEXDid 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.Roman Imperial BiographiesEmperorsRomeBiographyRomeHistoryTrajan, 98-117Emperors937/.07/092BBennett Julian412366MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823724203321Trajan72977UNINA