Trajan - The Best Emperor #13 (Optimus Princeps) Roman History Documentary Series

OPTIMVS PRINCEPS! The ONLY Roman emperor mentioned in the same breath as Augustus by the Roman people. Hail Trajan!

In Bulgaria we have a mountain pass called Gate of Trajan where a fortress used to stand to mark out the border between the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia.

Trajan is an underrated emperor. Yes, if you know history, you will know about him, but if you ask people on the street to name a Roman, they will say Julius Caesar.

In Algeria, North Africa, we have a whole city in the south east called Timgad, built under Trajan reign for veterans of war. Thanks for putting him under the light for me, as I never thought I'll be able to find a documentary dedicated just to him.

Trajan's forum was magnificent. I'm so sad about how little of it is left in Rome. Those 19 years were truly the best times to be alive in the empire.

Last summer when I went to southern Turkey I was amazed at the amount of buildings and statues preserved dating back to the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Hadrians gate in Antalya and countless building in Perge and Side were just awe-inspiring to look at. Its truly a miracle that such historical places have survived for almost two-thousand years.   The Roman Empire might have died over a thousand years ago, but its legacy still lives on in rural parts of southern Turkey. Great video!

You missed perhaps Trajan's most important contribution to Rome and the army. This was his re-organisation of the Legions but most of all it was his instruction that Legionaries were to carry 3 months food supply with them in the form of a mixture of butter, yoghurt, milk and flour, mixed up and dried in the sun and then ground up into a powder so that it could be carried in pouches on the belt. On campaigns, any cook was just ordered to fill the cauldron with water and begin boiling it! Legionaries would all then deposit a small amount of "Trajana" (about a teaspoon full) into the cauldron and then go foraging for soup ingredients and additives such as a wild fowl or herbs or vegetables etc! In this way, the army wasn't bogged down with supplies and utensils. The legionary would carry all that he needed with him.

Wow, talk about leaps and bounds, the quilty of this video is getting quite exceptional. Its almost classic that important emperors like Trajan have some of the worst or few surviving sources.

Re 14:00. 500.000 Roman pounds of gold is 161.250 kilogram which has a value as per May 2021 of €7,740 American Billion (€7.740.000.000). And then there was the silver in addition to that. In total it was EIGHT thousand million Euros (eight American billion) in total. Even by today's standards, the treasure was gargantuan.

Bro I've been waiting for this episode since the first video about Augustus. So hyped

Friendship ended with Augustus, now Marcus Ulpius Traianus is my new best friend.

How long do i have to wait for Aurelian episode?🤣🤣 let's say 5 years from now

Trajans column even though heavily stylized is my favourite of all sights to see in Rome.The laid out version a cast of the original is available to view in a building near to the column.Fascinating!!😮

Trajan is the most underrated emperor of Rome history, i'd say he was the second best after Augustus. I was looking for some pics with explanation about Trajan column but finally i found something, a bit but it is so good.

Me an Romanian watching this, and thinking hmmmm looks like if this man did not exist my country also would not exist, as everywhere in Romania , almost even the most uneducated person knows that Trajan and Decebal are the founding fathers of Romanian Nation.

He didn’t like hunting. He thought it was an absolute waste of time and (likely) traveled to Greece to grab up Hadrian because he heard he was hunting.

What a great leader Trajan was

Small fact: though Trajan was indeed the first non-Italian Emperor, he was not the first born outside Italy. Claudius was born in Lugdunum, in Gaul

One can say that Decabulus acted treacherously from the beginning and attacked Roman provinces and allies without provocation, bringing his later fate down on his own head and on his nation.

In the Romanian capital of Bucharest exists a cultural institution named Children of Trajan, in which events are spoken in ancient Latin in honor of the famous Roman emperor!