G. Lugli, The Roman Forum and Palatine (Rome: Bardi, 1961). The Arch of Titus is a Roman Triumphal Arch which was erected by Domitian in c. 81 CE at the foot of the Palatine hill on the Via Sacra in the Forum Romanum, Rome.It commemorates the victories of his father Vespasian and brother Titus in the Jewish War in Judaea (70-71 CE) when the great city of Jerusalem was sacked and the vast riches of its temple plundered. Subsequent emperors continued to elaborate upon the Forum of Augustus. She’s holding the snout of that bull back. Model of Forum of Trajan with libraries on either side of column / Wikimedia Commons. Remember the exedrae on either side of that temple, the embracing arms, that were new at that time, and an important component of the Forum of Augustus. Perhaps the most poignant and interesting scene happens way up at the top of the column, where the leader of the Dacians, Decebalus, is shown kneeling, almost like one of those Victories, on the bull. He said: “You’re a great engineer. Here we are looking at some of the columns from the Basilica that’s part of that forum, from the very well-preserved Column of Trajan. And what’s interesting about this, if you look, if you Google this and look at the website for the Fireman’s Memorial in New York, you will find out that the designer for this talks unabashedly of his admiration for the Column of Trajan in Rome, and that he used, as an artistic model, for the way in which he massed figures here, showing them in relationship to buildings, he used, as his model, the figures on the Column of Trajan, in Rome. View of the capitals of the Temple of Mars Ultor, Forum Augusti, c. 2 B.C.E. You’ll recall that Nerva was old, and in fact also relatively sickly, when he became emperor of Rome. And then at the apex, we see a good view of the top, with a statue of St. Peter; but we have coins depicting Trajan on–depicting the original statue–the base, the shaft, a portrait of Trajan, a naked portrait of Trajan, a heroicized portrait of Trajan, depicted after death, divinized at the apex of the column. You enter from there, into N, which is a natatio or swimming pool; a piscina. And that makes a lot of sense, again given that you could view it best from the two libraries on either side. The Sacra Via passed along the forum square en route to the Capitoline Hill and the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. And we’re going to see that just as in Augustus’ forum–another reference back to Augustus–that the columns in this main area are Corinthian below, but in the second tier there are figures — not figures of caryatids, but different kinds of figures, and I’m going to show you those soon. And so he builds public architecture in Rome, and allies himself in this regard to such earlier emperors as Augustus and as Claudius and as the Flavian dynasts, and we’re going to see that in his building projects today. And she is doing this to–not only is victory over the Dacians being marked here, but she is also representing the sacrifice that takes place in honor of that victory, by being shown depicting killing a bull. We have not seen that, up to this point chronologically, in built architecture. It looks like they’re quite solid, and that they project into the spectator’s space. This drawing shows an ancient sculpture now in Tunis that may be a depiction of the actual pedimental group from Mars Ultor (possible identifications left to right: Venus, Cupid, Mars, and Divus Iulius). Mon-Wed: Closed | Tue–Sun: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM - 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM . I mentioned the museum in Rome that is located in EUR, the Museo della Civiltà Romana, the Museum of Roman Civilization, that has casts and models. The markets, unlike the forum that is made out of marble, for the most part–as we’ve seen, variegated marble–the markets are made out of concrete, faced with brick: a very different material, but a material that is absolutely appropriate, when you want to cover a hillside with tiered buildings, looking back very much to the spa at Baia, looking back to Fortuna Primigenia, at Palestrina. The fragments of the Severan plan provide valuable information about the design of this architectural complex and has led scholars to speculate that the inspiration for its design may have been the great market (macellum magnum) of the city that had likely been destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome in 64 C.E. Now that was no small feat in this particular part of the city, because most of this area was occupied by a hill; the so-called Quirinal Hill, in Rome, occupied most of this space. It’s that idea, that market hall idea. We are reminded of this efficacy by an ancient example that is perhaps no different from the reaction of a modern visitor to the city of Rome. And we see the Roman soldiers building cities in many of these scenes. And over here you can actually see this is the–I may have shown this to you before–but this is actually the oculus of the octagonal room of Nero’s Domus Aurea. And then otherwise we saw here the rest of the precinct, with an elaborate entranceway over here. Temple of Castor and Pollux) that was completed in 484 B.C.E. I mean, this sort of thing absolutely presupposes this kind of architectural development. This sacred route was used for certain state-level ceremonies, especially the celebration of the victory ritual known as the Roman triumph. S. Baiani et al., Crypta Balbi-Fori imperiali: archeologia urbana a Roma e interventi di restauro nell’anno del Grande Giubileo (Rome: Kappa, 2000). roman high empire. The strength and accomplishments of the Roman state, not to mention its stability, are key themes in any such program of message making. They can lift their vault on top of individual piers, as they have done so spectacularly here; lift them up. Little of the Comitium remains today but it was a key architectural complex for political and sacred events during the time of the Roman Republic. R. Krautheimer, Three Christian capitals: topography and politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). Here’s a plan of the Basilica Ulpia, where we can see all of its major features. The entrance into the main part of the forum, rectangular in shape. Reconstruction of the Forum of Trajan draftsman: Pirro Ligorio (Italian, ca. And then a covered bazaar up here. ​The column carries an helical frieze of historical relief that provides a pictorial narrative of the events of Trajan’s wars in Dacia (101–102 and 105–106 C.E. The caldarium is here, and here you can see those radiating alcoves, with columns, that opened them up for vistas and the like, as well as to the warmth of the sun. And they are, of course, facing the southern end where the sun is, and that would, of course, help to heat the caldarium as well. 100, no. What is he doing? He not only is interested in public architecture, like Vespasian and Titus before him, but he follows their lead in building these buildings on top of earlier structures, now destroyed, of Nero. 4, 1990, pp. And then up here, you can see another–just right up above my finger–you can see another curved wall, and there’s another one somewhere down here, that are part of those curved rooms, those hemicycle-shaped rooms, that are these lecture halls and meeting halls and so on. emperor trajan. So Trajan continues the Flavian tradition of bringing marbles from all over, from places outside of Italy–from Africa, from Asia Minor, from Egypt and so on–for the decoration of these buildings, and an interest in multicolored marbles as facing. Throughout the Forum of Trajan the theme of military victory, and its celebration, permeate the monumental decorative programs. The emperor Constantius II, visiting Rome in the mid-fourth century C.E., was amazed by the Forum of Trajan, something he considered “a construction unique under the heavens” (Ammianus Marcellinus 16.10.15). The column was the first of many such monuments and it is also an invaluable source of information on the Roman Army and a lasting testimony to the Roman love of … For centuries, the Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) was the civic, juridical, and social heart of the ancient city of Rome, a place where civic buildings, sacred buildings, and monuments were to be both found and admired. And it tells, in documentary form, the exploits, the military exploits of Trajan, in his two Dacian military campaigns–those two campaigns that I’ve already mentioned–divided in the center by a Victory writing on a shield. See "Terms of Service" link for more information. View of the Forum of Trajan, c. 112 C.E.. Later medieval walls can be seen amidst the grass on the left; the upright columns of the Basilica Ulpia can be seen on the right in front of the larger Column of Trajan. See the bottom of each page for copyright information. So that’s another interesting addition to the bathing scene, and should you remind you of the kind of hemicycles that we saw, for example, in the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, or the Sanctuary of Hercules at Tivoli, where they also had those performance areas. You’ll recall its location, right next to the Victor Emmanuel Monument in Rome. And I also thought I would mention–I’m sure all of you have been down to Ground Zero, but if you go a block or two away from Ground Zero itself, there’s the Fireman’s Memorial there, that was put up to many of the fireman who sadly lost their lives fighting those fires in the Twin Towers. This is a sign that things are beginning to change in the Roman Empire, as the Romans–as Trajan extends those borders even further. And so Nerva adopts Trajan–and you see Trajan’s portrait above–Nerva adopts Trajan in 97 A.D., so that in 98, when Nerva dies–because he dies after only sixteen months in office–when Nerva dies, Trajan succeeds him without contest. View of the Forum of Trajan, c. 112 C.E.. Later medieval walls can be seen amidst the grass on the left; the upright columns of the Basilica Ulpia can be seen on the right in front of the larger Column of Trajan. Vespasian adds his Forum Pacis over here. We have seen it in painting–Cubiculum at the Met, over here, for example–this breaking the triangular pediment to allow something else to show through. It takes the name of Trajan’s family. 627-45. He was victorious in both of those, and this forum was built from the spoils of that war, to honor his victory over the Dacians. C. Hülsen and J. The advent of the principate of Augustus (27 B.C.E. The Forum Transitorium’s temple was sacred to Minerva, who had been a patron divinity of Domitian, and the architectural sculpture that decorated the porticoes featured imagery connected to Minerva and scenes from the private lives of women. The main reason that I show it to you today, besides to show that the Flavians again served–Flavian architecture served as an important model for Trajanic architecture, is that a couple of the scenes in the attic above are very interesting, and tell us something about the succession. The figures that were located on the upper tier of the center–of the main body of this forum again were not caryatids, or female figures, but rather male figures: male figures of captured Dacians, because the war that Trajan had, that enabled him to celebrate and to fund this building, was his wars against the Dacians, from ancient Dacia, modern Romania today. Description: The Column of Trajan was set up in the middle of the circular piazza located on the western edge of the Forum of Trajan. They existed, but we’re not absolutely sure about their plan. One was Dacicus, for his victories over the Dacians; but at the end of his life Optimus Princeps, the greatest princeps of all time. Home; Menu; Order Online; Contact; arch of trajan reliefs He has a knife in his hand. The long sides of the forum square, flanking the temple, housed two storeys of rooms that may have served political and/or mercantile functions. But you can see the extraordinary difference in scale. She says: “We’re not going to announce Trajan’s death. Just beyond the limit of the forum proper the second century C.E. Function: Two libraries surround the Trajan Column. The scrolls would have been placed on those shelves, and then have cupboards in front of them. On the western side of the basilica was another courtyard, flanked by two libraries (one Greek and one Latin), that contained a monumental honorific column, known today as the Column of Trajan. Over here, the forum that we’re going to be talking about today, the Forum of Trajan. And actually these were borders that were never gone beyond. San Francisco Ferry Building marketplace / Wikimedia Commons. They are all with helmets and shields. And we’re going to see that it is two part, in the sense that it has–it is a forum, it has the forum proper, and it also has markets appended to it. The Forum of Trajan, the last and most magnificent of the imperial fora, comprised a large open colonnaded space (with a bronze equestrian statue of Trajan at its centre), the Basilica Ulpia, and a 100-foot-high column flanked by two libraries, one Latin That’s not to say that Spain was the boondocks, by any stretch of the imagination. With regard to the plan of the baths, you will see that it follows the so-called Imperial Bath type that was initiated by the Baths of Titus, at least with regard to baths that are still preserved. F. Coarelli, Rome and Environs: an Archaeological Guide, trans. Flanking the temple in the exedrae (the semicircular, recessed areas behind the colonnades to the left and right of the temple) of the porticoes were sculptural groups depicting both Romulus and Aeneas, thus connecting Augustus to Rome’s two legendary founders (Ovid Fasti 5.549-570). / Wikimedia Commons. And you can see that the façade is actually not straight, but convex, convex: a convex façade, which is very interesting, curved façade, with an elaborate entranceway over here. So a victory, not only one of his great victories, military victories, but also victory over death. Column of Trajan, Carrara marble, completed 113 C.E., Rome; dedicated to Emperor Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus in honor of his victories over Dacia (now Romania) 101-02 and 105-06 C.E. Carved in bas relief, the exquisite frieze carefully narrates Trajan’s campaigns and its level of detail is simply astounding. We saw it in the House of the Mosaic Atrium, for example, the clerestory, which is the opening up of the wall, in this case through Ionic columns, to see the vistas that lie beyond, and to let light into the structure. We see the shops again. He became a kind of neo-Augustus. Aug. 29.2), but the temple and forum complex would not be dedicated until 2 B.C.E. The headless figure still can be seen on the site, and the one on the left is now in the Vatican Museums in Rome. Thus the forum slowly yielded its sacro-civic functions to more mundane concerns like pasturage—in fact it eventually came to be known as the “Campo Vaccino” (cow field). But look how sophisticated the Romans have become in their use of concrete faced with brick. The Imperial fora are located in an area bounded on the southwest by the Capitoline Hill, on the northeast by the Quirinal Hill, and extending toward the Esquiline Hill to the east. The temple had several construction phases. Some content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, and other content is completely copyright-protected. and Theodosius I suppressed all “pagan” religions and ordered temples shut permanently in 394 C.E. I mentioned to you, when we talked about the Forum Transitorium, that Domitian also had his eye on this property over here. But only by the 11th was it made public that Trajan was dead. Temple of Venus Genetrix (plan), Forum of Caesar. You can see in this restored view, this series of tabernae down below; the attic up above. And then what we see though with regard to the Baths of Trajan, that make them differ from the Baths of Titus, and are part of this evolution of Imperial Bath architecture in Rome, is the fact that the bathing block is placed in this very large rectangular precinct. Home; About the project; Resources. Viewing Trajan's Column was especially difficult from the small courtyard. They start to build architecture. They have their hands around something; we think these were probably spears that were added in metal, originally. Temple of Venus Genetrix frieze wtih Cupids, Forum of Julius Caesar / Photo by Carole Raddato, Wikimedia Commons. Just to remind you that it began to be restored–that is, the Forum of Julius Caesar–under Domitian, and that that restoration was completed by Trajan at some point during his reign, between 98 and 117 A.D. And I remind you of that here. But if we look back at the Baths of Titus, you’ll remember that what made them distinctive, and what made them differ from the earlier Stabian Baths or Forum Baths at Pompeii, was the way in which they placed the bathing block in the center, rather than to the side; that they arranged the main rooms–the tepidarium, the frigidarium and the caldaria, in this case–in axial relationship to one another. The forum of Trajan included markets, a basilica, an equestrian statue of the emperor and even a temple to himself. You can see it conforms to basilican architecture that we’ve looked at before, with a central nave, divided by its two side aisles–in this case, as you’ll recall in plan. A view of the Via Sacra Via, with the Artium Vestae in the foreground. The Roman interest in monumental, commemorative monuments, now referred to as triumphal arches, would soon follow. ad Att. This is the famous Via Biberatica of the Markets of Trajan, where again you get the sense, once you’re in here that you’re in a kind of city within a city, but with all these wonderful shops. The Curia emerged perhaps in the seventh century B.C.E., although little is known about its earliest phases. Both the Regia and the Temple of Vesta developed from crude structures in earlier phases to stone-built architecture in later phases. This is at the very base. We’ve talked about the clerestory before. This is the bottom level, that is located where the exedra, the first exedra is, on the right side. You can see that Trajan continues this interest in ornamentation that was characteristic of the Flavian period: very ornamental architectural decoration, very deeply carved, with a strong contrast between light and dark. Ferentino Market Hall / Wikimedia Commons. Clearly these are again the Dacian prisoners, one after another, aligning that second tier. (and then modified in 161 C.E. 466-482). Trajan follows suit. T. J. Luce, “Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum.” in Between Republic and Empire, ed. And it is arguable, I think probably correct, that Trajan was the even greater of the two. There are a number of important points about Trajan that should be made that have an impact on our understanding and analysis of his architecture. So we can guess, I think quite accurately, that this must be the entranceway to the Basilica Ulpia. Addressing the problems of seasonal rains and flooding proved more challenging—the valley required a landfill project as well as the construction of a drainage canal to manage standing water. You can see it’s covered with sculpture, and each of those scenes represents one of the accomplishments of Trajan. E. La Rocca, I Fori Imperiali (Rome: ENEL, 1995). But you can see how well preserved they are here. As coring studies conducted by Albert J. Ammerman have shown, a deliberate landfill project deposited fill in the forum valley in order to create usable, dry levels during the sixth century B.C.E. 94, no. But Nerva recognized quite early on that, although he was popular with the Senate and with the aristocracy, he was not a favorite of the army, and he realized that was not a good position to be in, and so he wisely decided, very early on, that he would select the most popular military man and the most highly successful military man in Rome, a man by the name of Trajan, as his heir. Vespasian adds his Forum Pacis over here. The visual program in the Forum of Augustus is complex. forum, market and meeting ... a colonnade enclosing the temple of Venus. The Romans are, of course, going to be victorious, but the Dacians are shown as heroic and valiant, and enemies who are pretty much the equals of the Romans in strength, which only underscores that the Romans were stronger still, to have conquered them. Why a balcony? And then at the end, a temple. James J. Clauss and Daniel P. Harmon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). We see roughly the same in the Baths of Trajan, in that again the bathing block is located right at the center of the structure, and the main rooms are aligned with one another axially. Forum of Trajan model / Wikimedia Commons, Column of Trajan spiral staircase and burial chamber / Wikimedia Commons. by K. Raaflaub, K. and M. Toher, pp. F. Coarelli, Il foro romano, 2 v. (Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1983-1992). He wanted, above all, to disassociate himself from Nero, and from Domitian, who had favored palatial architecture, as you’ll recall. And once again, how fortunate we are that we have coins that say BASILICAVLPIA, Basilica Ulpia. You can see also that it’s a gargantuan structure. So it’s again this same message, giving back to the people the land that Nero had taken illegally from Rome during his reign. temple of Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina was constructed in 141 C.E. Via Biberatica in the Markets of Trajan / Wikimedia Commons, Markets of Trajan axonometric plan / Wikimedia Commons, Markets of Trajan covered bazaar / Wikimedia Commons. A pedestrian walkway, the Via Alessandrina, also allows for an excellent (and free) view of Trajan's Forum. In his summary, Plautus gives the reader the sense that one could find just about every sort of person in the forum—from criminals and hustlers to politicians and prostitutes. In that centralized space community rituals that served a larger purpose of group unity could be performed and observed and elites could reinforce social hierarchy through the display of monumental art and architecture. You can see that she’s winged. The next imperial forum to be built was commissioned by the emperor Vespasian following the suppression of the Great Jewish Revolt that lasted from 66 to 73 C.E. So bringing in some of those elements from sanctuary design, into bath design, in the Baths of Trajan in Rome. Cupids, frieze-architrave, Temple of Venus Genetrix, Forum of Julius Caesar, 113 C.E., marble (Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali). Re-thinking Judaism’s Encounter with the Roman Empire. Iron Age populations had used the marshy valley separating the Palatine and Capitoline hills as a necropolis (a large ancient cemetery), but the burgeoning settlement of archaic Rome had need of communal space and the valley was repurposed from a necropolis to a usable space. They have realized that they don’t even need a wall, to support vaults. Well likely because Pope Sixtus V, in the Renaissance, used this column, and also the column of the later emperor, Marcus Aurelius, as important nodes in his reconstruction of the city of Rome. Trajan was restoring Julius Caesar’s Forum, at the same time he’s building his own. All of these things date, by the way, to the same period, around A.D. 113, the forum and also the markets. And this is very important, because we know that Apollodorus of Damascus was responsible for building a bridge over the Danube River. R. Darwall-Smith, Emperors and Architecture: a Study of Flavian Rome (Collection Latomus; 231) (Brussels: Latomus, 1996). We are looking at the marble; you can see real marble and variegated marbles brought from all over the world. There are several architectural difficulties to overcome to view the Column of Trajan. Minerva was the patron deity of Domitian, who initiated the construction of the Forum Transitorium. : Harvard University Press, 2009). Column of Trajan scene of Roman soldiers building a fort / Wikimedia Commons, Column of Trajan fort battle scene / Wikimedia Commons. And what did he do? It’s likely that Trajan had the same idea in mind, but it’s a little strange, because wouldn’t he then have adopted him before his death? It’s important for us to look back at the general plan of the Imperial Fora, to see where the Forum of Trajan fits in. The Roman Pantheon probably doesn’t make popular shortlists of the world’s architectural icons, but it should: it is one of the most imitated buildings in history. Works of art like the Bayeux Tapestry (and Trajan’s column) were created not long after the actual events, and because of this contemporaneity we have much more knowledge of events, people, places, arms and armour. This is quite different from the Forum at Pompeii, where you’ll remember the basilica was splayed off, to the side. You can identify them by their leggings and tunics and scraggly hair and beards, here. (Livy 1.6) The traditional … The Column of Trajan is located was flanked by Greek and Latin libraries, on axis with the entranceway, the equestrian statue of Trajan, the other entranceway, the column, and ultimately the temple, at the very end: the temple ultimately to divine Trajan. And then it was only on the 11th, the 11th of August that Trajan’s death was announced to the public. In his play Curculio, the Latin playwright Plautus offers perhaps one of the most comprehensive and insightful descriptions of the Forum Romanum ever written (ll. The Forum of Caesar takes the form of a rectangle measuring 160 by 75 m. The centerpiece of the complex was the Temple of Venus Genetrix, dedicated to the goddess that Caesar celebrated as his distant ancestor. During the Imperial period the Forum Romanum itself saw only sporadic new construction, although the maintenance of the existing structures would have provided a pressing and ongoing obligation. The drainage canal eventually came to have a vaulted covering and was known as the Cloaca Maxima or “Great Drain.” One of the clear outcomes of these civic investments was the creation of a usable space that came to be a civic focus for activities in many spheres, especially political and sacred functions. wreaked considerable damage on remaining Roman monuments in the forum and in its environs. The Romans had created a kind of pointing machine, which they used to make exact replicas of originals. You can see it, if you wander through this park, you can see it from above, with a grate on top of it, as well as down below, if you visit the palace itself. The octastyle (eight columns across the façade) temple was made of solid marble and sat atop a high podium. It’s a very large basilica. But Plotina decides–she consults with advisors. Important meeting spaces for political bodies emerged at the northwest side of the forum, namely a pair of complexes known as the Curia and Comitium. You can see it’s a conventional Roman temple: deep porch, freestanding columns, staircase, one staircase, façade orientation, just as we saw elsewhere. Colligendos atque edendos curavit Iosephus Lugli, 8 v. (Rome: Università di Roma, Istituto di topografia antica, 1952-1965). The Forum Romanum played a key role in creating a communal focal point, one toward which various members of a diverse socio-economic community could gravitate. We see, first of all, that it has a single arcuation in the center — so one doorway. L. Richardson, jr., A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). And actually that one, the one that’s up here, actually has niches in the wall, with shelves, which indicates to us that that was used as one of the libraries. Column of Trajan- patron. Gleerup, 1953-1973). The basilica was a columnar hall that often had a multi-purpose use—from law courts to commerce to entertainments. These famous men (summi viri) were portrayed alongside small, inscribed plaques (tituli) bearing their political and military accomplishments. This frieze, as far as we can tell, does belong to the Trajanic renovation of the building, but it probably does look back to an earlier Julian frieze that decorated the original temple in Rome. Rather than featuring a central temple seated atop a prominent podium, the Templum Pacis complex consists of a square portico (dimensions 110 x 135 m) with the temple itself set within the eastern side of the portico, flanked by ancillary rooms. These new Imperial Fora in some cases provided additional space and, in turn, shifted attention away from the Forum Romanum. He has done enough research to allow a very accurate reconstruction of what this forum would’ve looked like. Forum of Trajan reconstruction illustration / UCLA, Creative Commons. Roman monuments were cannibalized for building materials and open, unused spaces were re-purposed—sometimes as ad hoc dwellings and other times for the deposition of rubbish and fill. While the forum was the Romans imposing a rectangular plan on nature–remember, they have to cut back the hill, to make way for it–the markets are something quite different. We see 150 shops here, on a variety of levels. And I also want to point out, if you look very closely at the columns and the elements above them in the attic, you can see that the columns project, and the attic seems to have projecting entablatures. The model gives you a better sense of what it looked like in antiquity. The sixth century B.C.E. Plan of the Baths of Trajan / Wikimedia Commons. So a very different kind of image. We see all of those there, and these were used, as far as we can determine, as meeting halls, lecture halls, Greek and Latin libraries. I described this, I think, in the introductory lecture as in a sense opening up a series of umbrellas over the space. It is especially significant to note that this is a public space and that Vespasian’s generosity granted the populace of Rome access not only to a beautiful, monumental square, but also to art and the spoils of military victory (including spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem). So his first commissions were building bridges–I’m going to show you a reference to one today–building bridges, or building forts and camps on Trajan’s military campaigns, and then using that expertise, ingratiating himself with the emperor, who sees that he is enormously talented–because Trajan participated in these campaigns himself–seeing how talented he was, and then putting him in charge of his building projects in Rome, which is really quite interesting. , gradually disappeared from view s always locked, and perpendicular to northwest. 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