Domitian’s murder marked the end of the Flavian dynasty and changed the rules of succession. Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job. The ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column. It’s a tale ...

Rome’s greatest expansion came under Emperor Trajan, who launched brutal campaigns to secure the empire’s borders and punish enemies who refused to submit. In Dacia, Trajan smashed King Decebalus ...

In the 2nd century A.D., the Emperor Trajan startled Rome’s housewives by introducing the revolutionary idea of the covered market. It seemed the last word in shopping, and for the next 18 centuries ...

Born into a wealthy family who lived in northern Italy, Pliny was too young to have been affected by the civil wars that followed the death of Nero. His own father died when Pliny was still very young ...

As the title suggests Nicholas Jackson’s Trajan: Rome’s Last Conqueror, from Greenhill Books, is about the life and achievements of one of the greatest Roman emperors, during whose reign the Empire ...