Table of Contents

COMMENTARY PART I, The First War, Casts 1-206, (Scenes i-lxxviii); COMMENTARY PART II, The Second War, Casts 207-414, (Scenes lxxix-clv); NOTES; PART ONE: The Column and its Setting; A 1 Apollodorus of Damascus; A 2 The Column and the Coinage; A 3 'Templum Divi Traiani'; A 4 The Inscription on the Base; A 5 The Originality of the Column; PART TWO: Some Sources; B 1 The Dio Account; B 2 Xiphilinus; B 3 Trajan and Caesar; PART THREE: Chronology; C 1 Trajan's Titulature; C 2 Brick-stamps and Mouldings; C 3 The dates of Trajan's Dacian Wars; C 4 The date of 'Hunt's Pridianum'; PART FOUR: Archaeology and the Column; D 1 Roman Camps and Forts; D 2 Roman Military Equipment; D 3 Dacian Fortifications; D 4 Dacian Arms and Equipment; PART FIVE: The Subject-matter of the Reliefs; E 1 Portraits on the Column; E 2 The Causes of Trajan's Dacian Wars; E 3 The Case for Premeditation; E 4 Trajan's Invasion Armies; E 5 Adamclisi; E 6 Sarmizegethusa; PART SIX: Aftermath; F 1 The Frontier after the Wars; F 2 The Province of Dacia; F 3 Behind the Line; F 4 Time and the Column.

About the Author

Frank Lepper was formerly Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Sheppard Frere was formerly Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Oxford