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Phase
98–117 CE
Trajan combined extensive public building with major campaigns in Dacia and against Parthia. At his death, Roman territory had reached its greatest extent.
His marriage to Plotina produced no children, making the succession dependent on adoption and court influence. Hadrian emerged as emperor in circumstances that remained politically sensitive.
Empress of the Seven Hills follows fictional soldiers and aristocrats through Trajan's wars and the manoeuvring surrounding Hadrian's rise.
Series
City of Victory continues the story of Flavius Ferox after the Vindolanda novels, moving him from the northern frontier of Britain to Trajan’s Dacian and eastern campaigns before bringing him back to Hadrian’s Wall. The sequence follows frontier command, imperial politics, sieges and the dangerous patronage of Hadrian…
Books
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