Trajan

4 09, 2017

Pliny the Younger and his Letters – Roman history

By |2017-09-04T08:27:09-07:00September 4th, 2017|History, Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Pliny the Younger and his Letters – Roman history

Forum of Pompeii Pliny the Younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder. He was a teenager visiting his uncle near Pompeii when his uncle died in the eruption. Pliny the Younger, however, did [...]

3 09, 2017

The five good emperors – Rome’s golden age

By |2018-04-25T10:04:09-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|Comments Off on The five good emperors – Rome’s golden age

The Roman emperor Domitian, assassinated in 96 AD When Domitian was assassinated in 96 AD, people were very much afraid that it would be like after the assassination of Julius Caesar, or after Nero's suicide, [...]

31 08, 2017

Trajan’s Markets – Roman architecture

By |2019-10-19T10:42:32-07:00August 31st, 2017|Architecture, Romans|Comments Off on Trajan’s Markets – Roman architecture

The view from Trajan's Markets Why did Trajan build a new forum? After the Forum of Julius Caesar and the Forum of Augustus, later emperors also built more extensions on to the Roman Forum, [...]

28 08, 2017

Trajan’s Column – Roman art – Dacian Wars

By |2018-04-24T23:44:55-07:00August 28th, 2017|Art, Romans|Comments Off on Trajan’s Column – Roman art – Dacian Wars

Trajan's Column in the Forum of Trajan, in Rome Trajan's column was built just after 100 AD to remind people in Rome about the Roman emperor Trajan's victories in a war in Dacia [...]

23 08, 2017

Pliny, Trajan, and the Christians

By |2018-04-24T23:10:19-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on Pliny, Trajan, and the Christians

The Roman emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117) in the Vatican. By the time that Trajan was the Roman Emperor, around 100 AD, Christianity was definitely illegal. We have some letters written by Pliny, the governor [...]

19 05, 2017

History of Gold

By |2018-04-10T00:17:19-07:00May 19th, 2017|Economy, Science|Comments Off on History of Gold

History of gold: Gold bust of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamon (ca. 1300 BC) People have been using gold to make jewelry since the Stone Age. You can find it just [...]

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