Trajan: optimus princeps : a life and times
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Main Author: Bennett, Julian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 1997
Series:Roman imperial biographies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 317 pages, [16] pages of plates)
ISBN:0203360567
0415165245
9780203360569
9780415165242

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