Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job. The results were remarkably successful. Nerva became emperor immediately after Domitian’s ...

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.

The story of Emperor Trajan’s victory over a mighty barbarian empire isn’t just one for the books. It’s also told in 155 scenes carved in a spiral frieze on a monumental column. In back-to ...

Because he is unsure as to whether he can kill them legally for no other crime than their faith, he writes to his friend the Emperor for advice. The Emperor replies that he did the right thing in ...

Plutarch did not have a personal relationship with Trajan (as did, for example, Pliny the Younger). Indeed, Emperor and scholar may never have met directly (though Plutarch probably appeared before ...

(Trajan was named after the unusually philanthropic Roman emperor who ruled between 98 and 117 AD). Trajan makes analytical consumables and tools, as used in the biological, environmental and food ...