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Available content about Trajan. Counts refer to the entries displayed on this page, not complete coverage of their life or reign.
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The Flavians and Vesuvius AD 68 – 96 · 1
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast
Thirty-seven minutes on the two Dacian wars, which ended with a province, a column in Rome and enough gold to pay for both.
The High Empire AD 98 – 192 · 16
Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes
Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium
Seventy-three minutes scoring the emperor who ignored the advice to stop expanding and pushed the borders further than anyone before or after. The show weighs the conquests against what holding them cost.
Part of Echoes of History · History Hit for Assassin's Creed; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of Emperors of Rome
Thirty-two minutes on why the senate gave him the title Optimus Princeps, which it gave to nobody else. Winning over the senate and the people at once is the achievement the episode takes apart.
Two wars, a bridge over the Danube, and enough gold to pay for a forum. Twenty-two minutes on the last great Roman conquest.
Part of The History of Rome
Duncan on the reign that later emperors were measured against, including the phrase the senate used at every accession afterwards. Twenty-one minutes.
Part of The Pax Romana Podcast
Pliny writing from Bithynia about aqueducts, fire brigades and what to do with Christians, and Trajan answering. Twenty minutes on the only surviving correspondence between an emperor and his governor.
The one neighbour Rome never solved, from Carrhae to Trajan's march to the Persian Gulf. Eighteen minutes on four centuries of a frontier that moved and never held.
Seventeen minutes walking the forum the Dacian gold paid for: a basilica, two libraries and a column, on ground cut out of a hill.
Trajan's instruction that Christians should be punished if accused and never hunted, and anonymous denunciations ignored. Seventeen minutes on a policy of deliberate inattention.
The provincial tours that took him away from Rome for more than half his reign. Seventeen minutes on governing by turning up.
Sixteen minutes on optimus princeps as a job description: the senate flattered, the grain supply secured, and the alimenta feeding children in Italy.
Part of Understanding Rome · Agnes Crawford, licensed guide in Rome
Thirteen minutes on the first emperor born in a province, adopted by a man who needed an heir and an army that already liked him.
Thirteen minutes on the Dacian triumph and the gold that paid for a forum, a column and a hundred and twenty-three days of games.
