
Mason Hammond
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LOCATION: Cambridge, MA, United States
Pope Professor Emeritus of Latin Language and Literature; former Professor of Roman History, Harvard University. Author of The Antonine Monarchy.
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Trajan was a Roman emperor (98–117 ce) who sought to extend the boundaries of the empire to the east (notably in Dacia, Arabia, Armenia, and Mesopotamia), undertook a vast building program, and enlarged social welfare. Marcus Ulpius Traianus was born in the Roman province of Baetica (the area…
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