Trajan
c. 53 CE–c. 117 CE · Italica
Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 53–117 CE) was a Roman emperor of the Nerva–Antonine line, born at Italica in the province of Hispania Baetica and the first emperor born outside Italy. He ruled from 98 CE, the period during which the Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, notably through his eastern campaigns against Parthia. During those campaigns (115–117 CE), widespread revolts broke out among Jewish diaspora communities in Cyrene, Egypt, Cyprus, and Mesopotamia — the conflict later known as the Kitos War, whose name derives from his general Lusius Quietus, who helped suppress the uprisings.
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Italica
What they did here
Marcus Ulpius Traianus was born at Italica in the province of Hispania Baetica, a Roman colony northwest of modern Seville. He became the first emperor of provincial birth.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Trajan’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Dorotheus of Sidon· 25 CE–90 CE
- Silius Italicus· 26 CE–102 CE
- Musonius Rufus· 30 CE–101 CE
- Nerva· 30 CE–98 CE
- Chariton of Aphrodisias· 35 CE–110 CE
- Quintilian· 35 CE–100 CE
- Titus· 39 CE–81 CE
- Dio Chrysostom· 40 CE–115 CE
- Martial· 40 CE–104 CE
- Valerius Flaccus· 40 CE–95 CE
- Rufus of Ephesus· 45 CE–105 CE
- Statius· 45 CE–96 CE
- Plutarch· 46 CE–120 CE
- Domitian· 51 CE–96 CE
- Juvenal· 55 CE–130 CE
- Epictetus· 55 CE–135 CE
- Tacitus· 56 CE–120 CE
- Nicomachus of Gerasa· 60 CE–120 CE
- Pliny the Younger· 61 CE–113 CE
- Philo of Byblos· 64 CE–141 CE
- Suetonius· 69 CE–130 CE
- Theon Smyrnaeus· 70 CE–135 CE
- Florus· 74 CE–130 CE
- Hadrian· 76 CE–138 CE
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Christian world
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