At 126 feet tall, cut from marble, adorned with a spiral frieze intricately carved with 155 scenes, Trajan’s amazing column ...

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 ...

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 ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral up ...

Trajan's Column is more than a towering marble monument—it’s a story carved in stone about victory, power, and engineering genius. Built in 113 CE to celebrate Rome’s triumph over Dacia, it blends ...

Trajan pushed Rome deep into the East, but Parthia remained one of the empire’s most stubborn and dangerous rivals. Geography ...

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 ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 47 (Sale info: For Sale). This artist was director of the French Academy at Rome, where in 1672 he painted four pictures for the King of France, of which the ...