Trajan Rome S Last Conqueror

Author : Nicholas Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178438707X

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Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror by Nicholas Jackson Pdf

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring a comprehensive array of maps, illustrations, and photographs to help orientate and bring the text to life.Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in present-day Spain, and is the first Roman Emperor to be born outside of Rome. His remarkable rise from officer to general and then to emperor in just over 20 years reveals a shrewd politician who maintained absolute power. Trajan's success in taking the Roman Empire to its greatest expanse is highlighted in this gripping biography.Trajan's military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan's territory.

Author : Nicholas Jackson
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784387082

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Trajan by Nicholas Jackson Pdf

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring a comprehensive array of maps, illustrations, and photographs to help orientate and bring the text to life. Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in present-day Spain, and is the first Roman Emperor to be born outside of Rome. His remarkable rise from officer to general and then to emperor in just over 20 years reveals a shrewd politician who maintained absolute power. Trajan’s success in taking the Roman Empire to its greatest expanse is highlighted in this gripping biography. Trajan’s military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan’s territory.

Author : Julian Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709137

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Trajan by Julian Bennett Pdf

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.

Author : C. R. H. Wildfeuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 0981846068

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Trajan, Lion of Rome by C. R. H. Wildfeuer Pdf

Trajan - Lion of Rome is a historical novel, based on the life of the Emperor Trajan (ruled 98-117 AD), who expanded the Roman Empire to its maximum size. The reader plunges into a world riveted by the power struggles between Empire and rebels, Emperor and Senate and Rome versus competing kingdoms at its borders. The book is meticulously researched and stays true to the historic events.Trajan, the son of a general, grows up with aspirations to exceed his thriving father as a soldier. Successful beyond his own expectations, Trajan is soon drawn into the conflict between the tyrant Domitian and a resentful Senate, led by Nerva. He needs to choose sides, supported by his wife Plotina and cousin Hadrian. After Domitian¿s assassination Nerva takes over and appoints Trajan as his successor. When Nerva dies two years later Trajan¿s time has come. Now he has to prove himself against the temptations of power and the siren song of military glory. He succeeds by leading a war of necessity against Dacian invaders, but his conquest of Mesopotamia turns into a huge challenge for himself and the whole Roman army.

Author : Nicholas Jackson
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784387105

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Trajan by Nicholas Jackson Pdf

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring a comprehensive array of maps, illustrations, and photographs to help orientate and bring the text to life. Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in present-day Spain, and is the first Roman Emperor to be born outside of Rome. His remarkable rise from officer to general and then to emperor in just over 20 years reveals a shrewd politician who maintained absolute power. Trajan’s success in taking the Roman Empire to its greatest expanse is highlighted in this gripping biography. Trajan’s military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan’s territory.

Author : John F. White
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473844773

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The Roman Emperor Aurelian by John F. White Pdf

The leader who helped keep the Dark Ages at bay: “An excellent picture of the Crisis of the Third Century and the life and work of Aurelian” (StrategyPage). The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for one thousand years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor, and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces. Yet within the space of just five years, the general, and later emperor, Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from within the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire, and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion, and civil administration. His accomplishments have been hailed by classical scholars as those of a superman, yet Aurelian himself remains little known to a wider audience. His achievements enabled the Roman Empire to survive for another two centuries, ensuring a lasting legacy of Roman civilization for the successor European states. Without Aurelian, the Dark Ages would probably have lasted centuries longer.

Author : Paul N. Pearson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399090988

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The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 by Paul N. Pearson Pdf

“A clear, brisk writer, Pearson is also quite thorough, taking a holistic attitude to the many facets of a confused, turbulent period.” —NYMAS Review This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the “plague of Cyprian.” There was also sustained persecution of the Christians. A central theme of the book is that this was a period of moral and spiritual crisis in which the traditional state religion suffered greatly in prestige, paving the way for the eventual triumph of Christianity. The sensational recent discovery of extensive fragments of the lost Scythica of Dexippus sheds much new light on the Gothic Wars of the period. The author has used this new evidence in combination with in-depth investigations in the field to develop a revised account of events surrounding the great Battle of Abritus, in which the army of the emperor Decius was annihilated by Cniva’s Goths. The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260 sheds new light on a period that is pivotal for understanding the transition between Classical civilization and the period known as Late Antiquity.

Author : Julian Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 0253214351

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Trajan by Julian Bennett Pdf

Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588368966

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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt Pdf

“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London) Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.

Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526771841

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Diocletian and the Military Restoration of Rome by Lee Fratantuono Pdf

The third century AD was one of unprecedented crisis and chaos for the Roman Empire. Nightmares both internal and external threatened to spell the end of Rome’s thousand-year history. Diocletian was born either a slave or a freedman, and he grew up to become the savior of Rome in her hour of crisis, a powerful military and political leader who transformed the Roman Empire from a hotbed of unceasing strife and turmoil into a renewed, restored, revivified and stable polity. His more than twenty years of power were marked by the ill-fated Great Persecution of the Christians, an undertaking that would prove to be one of the less successful initiatives of his reign, even as in its own way it helped to pave the way for the coming of an equally famous, successful emperor in the person of Constantine the Great. The present study seeks to provide an introduction to the life and times of Diocletian for the general reader, offering a balanced portrait of an immensely talented man in a time of trial and tumult, an accomplished emperor who knew when it was time to retire to his gardens.

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415349583

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Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99 by John D. Grainger Pdf

John Grainger's detailed study examines a period of intrigue and conspiracy, studies how, why and by whom Domitian was killed and investigates the effects of this dynastic uncertainty and why civil war didn't occur in this time of political upheaval.

Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473826922

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Germanicus by Lindsay Powell Pdf

“The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been” (Fighting Times). Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a return to a more open republic. This, the first modern biography of Germanicus, is in parts a growing-up story, a history of war, a tale of political intrigue, and a murder mystery. In this highly readable, fast paced account, historical detective Lindsay Powell details Germanicus’s campaigns and battles in Illyricum and Germania; tracks him on his epic tour of the Eastern Mediterranean to Armenia and down the Nile; evaluates the possible causes of his death; and reports on the cruel fate his wife, Agrippina, and their children suffered at the hands of Praetorian Guard commander, and Tiberius’s infamous deputy, Aelius Sejanus.

Author : Filippo Coarelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021906271

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The Column of Trajan by Filippo Coarelli Pdf

Author : Jose Gomez-Rivera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Generals
ISBN : 1413452949

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Flavius Aetius by Jose Gomez-Rivera Pdf

Presents an historical love story about Flavius Aetius, the last great Roman general, and the Empress Galla Placida, and their struggle to preserve Rome during the last days of the Western Roman Empire.

Author : Pat Southern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112192898

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Pompey the Great by Pat Southern Pdf

A detailed study of Pompey's achievements