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Trajan - Early life and rise to power.
Trajan was the son of M. Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the famous gens Ulpia. The family had settled in the province of Hispania Baetica in what is now Andalusia, a province that was as utterly Romanized as southern Hispania. Trajan himself was just one of many well-known Ulpii in a line that continued long after his own death.
He was born on September 18, 53, in the city of Italica. As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman ...
See also:Trajan, Trajan - Life of Trajan, Trajan - Early life and rise to power, Trajan - Dacian Wars, Trajan - Expansion in the East, Trajan - A period of peace, Trajan - The Empire at its maximum extent, Trajan - Trajan's legacy Read more here: » Trajan: Encyclopedia II - Trajan - Life of Trajan |
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 |  |  | Trajan - Early life and rise to power: Encyclopedia II - Trajan - Trajan's legacyFor the remainder of the history of the Roman Empire and well into the era of the Byzantine Empire, every new emperor after Trajan was honored by the Senate with the prayer felicior Augusto, melior Traiano, meaning "may he be luckier than Augustus and better than Trajan".
Unlike many lauded rulers in history, Trajan's reputation has survived undiminished for nearly nineteen centuries. The Christianization of Rome resulted in further embellishment of his legend: it was commonly said in medieval times that Pope Gregory I, through ...
See also:Trajan, Trajan - Life of Trajan, Trajan - Early life and rise to power, Trajan - Dacian Wars, Trajan - Expansion in the East, Trajan - A period of peace, Trajan - The Empire at its maximum extent, Trajan - Trajan's legacy Read more here: » Trajan: Encyclopedia II - Trajan - Trajan's legacy |
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