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The Villa of Trajan [1] was a palatial summer residence and hunting lodge of the ancient Roman Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 AD), dating from the beginning of his reign. Its location, near the modern village of Arcinazzo , was, like many patrician villas, carefully chosen on high plateau at the foot of Monte Altuino (1271 m) and in a splendid ...
Apollodorus was Trajan's favoured architect and engineer. In Rome he designed and oversaw the construction of: Trajan's Forum and Markets; Temple of Trajan; Trajan's Column (the first monument of its kind) Outside the capital, Apollodorus designed the: Trajan's Bridge across the Danube; Alconétar Bridge over the Tagus in Spain
According to Cassius Dio, it was Trajan who raised both the II Traiana and the XXX Ulpia Victrix, [1] but the details and order are not clear. H.M.D. Parker has argued that the XXX Ulpia was raised first, at the time there were 29 legions, then after Legio XXI Rapax vanished—either destroyed in battle against barbarian invaders or in a civil disturbance—the II Traiana came into existence.
The architect of the complex is said to be Apollodorus of Damascus. [3] Early Christian writers were thought to have misnamed the remains the "Baths of Domitian" [4] but this was shown to be a correct attribution for the emperor who began the project, even if Trajan completed the work. [5]
The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The Via Traiana Nova or Via Nova Traiana (Latin for 'Trajan's New Road'), previously known as the Via Regia or King's Highway, was an ancient Roman road built by Emperor Trajan in the province of Arabia Petraea, from Aqaba on the Red Sea to Bostra.
Suovetaurilia in a military setting, from Trajan's Column Some religious rites similar to the Roman suovetaurilia were practiced by a few other Indo-European peoples, from Iberia to India. The Cabeço das Fráguas inscript (found in Portugal ) describes a threefold sacrifice practiced by the Lusitanians , devoting a sheep, a pig and a bull to ...
After a long wait, the Detroit Pistons formally introduced Trajan Langdon as the team's new president of basketball operations at a news conference Friday.. Langdon was officially named to the ...
The Bibliotheca Ulpia ("Ulpian Library") was a Roman library founded by the Emperor Trajan in AD 114 in the Forum of Trajan, located in ancient Rome. It was considered one of the most prominent and famous libraries of antiquity [ 1 ] and became a major library in the Western World upon the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd ...