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Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate .
Trajan's successor Hadrian added a philosophical school adjacent to the piazza containing the Temple of Trajan. The building consisted of three parallel halls separated by annexes and was known as the Athenaeum ; it functioned variously as school, a venue for judicial proceedings, and an occasional meeting-place for the Senate.
A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome is an 1821 landscape painting by the British artist Charles Lock Eastlake. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a view of Trajan's Forum in Rome , dominated by Trajan's Column . The scene features both remains of Ancient Rome and much later buildings.
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The reliefs of Trajan's Column produced in this period are considered not only masterpieces of Roman civilization, but of ancient art in general. [1] Reliefs on the Trajan's Column. The spiral-shaped column covered with reliefs was an absolute novelty in ancient art and became the most avant-garde arrival point of the Roman historical relief ...
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 ...
Image credits: Flares117 Another interesting fact about the family who couldn't sleep comes from Redditor u/Potatoe_expert.Science writer and author of the book about said family The Family That ...