Essay - Rise to Power of Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, Trajan Emperor of...

Rise to Power of Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, Trajan Emperor ***** Rome

***** is an essay on Marcus Ulpius *****us, Emperor of Rome. It discusses his rise ***** power and rein as emperor. Two sources are used. MLA.

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Marcus Ulpius Trajanus was born ***** "the fourteenth day before the kaleds ***** March" or in o*****r w*****ds, September 18th, probably in the year AD 52 at Italica near Seville, Spain. Being of Spanish origin made him ***** first emperor who did not come from Italy, even though he was from an old Umbrian family from Tuder in northern Italy. Having chosen to settle in Spa*****, the ***** was not a purely provinci*****l one (Empire, pg).

***** ***** the son of a Sen*****or, Consul, and Governor ***** Asia and Syria. His father, also Macus Ulpius Trajanus, comm*****ed the Tenth Legion "Fretensis" in the Jewish War of ***** 67-68. He became consul in AD 70 and in AD 75 he became governor of Syria, which was one of t***** key military provinces in the empire. Later, he became governor ***** the ***** of Baetica ***** Asia (Rome, pg) (*****, *****). Very little is known of his mother, Marcia. ***** sister, Ulpia Maciana, had a gr*****nddaughter who married Hadrian. Trajan married Pompeia Plotina (Caesars, pg).

Trajan served as a milit*****ry tribune in Syria during the governorship of his father. ***** gained the *****fice of praetorship in ***** 85 and soon won comm***** of the Seventh Legion 'Gemina' based at Legio (Leon) in ***** Spain. In AD 88/89 he marched this legion into Upper Germany to help in suppressing the rebellion ***** Saturninus against Domitian (Empire, *****). This swift action, although ********** late, ***** him ***** goodwill of Domitian. Nerva, Domitian's successor, made Trajan governor ***** Upper Germany in AD 96. ***** ***** 97, Nerva sent a handwritten note to Trajan informing him of his adoption. Trajan then summoned the leaders ***** the earlier mutiny by the praetorians to Upper Germany and executed them upon arrival. Such ruthless actions gained him a formidable reputation (*****, pg).

When Nerva died in AD 98, Trajan went on a tour of *****spection to the legions of the Rhine and Danube frontiers ***** bolster his support among ***** soldiers. Trajan arrived in Rome ***** AD 99 to jubilant crowds. The new emperor entered the city on foot, in ***** manner of a priv*****te citizen, embrac*****g each senator and even walking among the ordinary people (Empire, *****). He entered the palace as if it was just another house. ***** was the beginning of a great age for Rome, the reign ***** Optimus Princeps, Emperor Trajan (Caesars, pg). Such modesty helped Trajan gain even more ***** during the first year of his reign. He ***** gained ***** more respect when he promised the senate that he would always keep them in*****med about the affairs of government ***** moreover, when he declared that the ********** right to rule to be compatible with the freedom of ***** ***** ***** were