11-21-2008, 02:30 PM
Maybe it's down to the British view on thingss, with Hadrian symbolising the End of Conquest, and therefore Trajan as the Great Expansionist coming before him. And Hadrian's Wall symbolising it very neatly. All nice for the historybooks.
Jona, historians do that (for schoolbooks and simple bookss about ''the Romans' mind you!!) because they 9or the publicists) like to think in simple periods.
You have your beginnings, you have your rise to world domination (Caesar), you have your summit (Trajan), you have your crisis (Third century) and you have your End (Goths sack Rome in 410).
But of course it's nonsense, but how many of us have not beeen confronted with 'the Roman Empire' being that very concept, and 'the Fall of Romee' being the end? No 476, no Byzantium, etc. People like to keep it simple. Trajan is part of that view.
Jona, historians do that (for schoolbooks and simple bookss about ''the Romans' mind you!!) because they 9or the publicists) like to think in simple periods.
You have your beginnings, you have your rise to world domination (Caesar), you have your summit (Trajan), you have your crisis (Third century) and you have your End (Goths sack Rome in 410).
But of course it's nonsense, but how many of us have not beeen confronted with 'the Roman Empire' being that very concept, and 'the Fall of Romee' being the end? No 476, no Byzantium, etc. People like to keep it simple. Trajan is part of that view.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
