Marcus Ulpius Traianus

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Marcus Ulpius Traianus on an Aureus Trajans of the year 115 (right portrait on the right picture)

The Roman politician and general Marcus Ulpius Traianus (* before 30 AD; † before 100 AD), 113 divinized as divus Traianus pater , was the father of the Roman emperor Trajan and the great-uncle of his successor Hadrian .

Ulpius Traianus belonged to the descendants of a group of colonists who lived in 205 BC. BC by Scipio Africanus in Italica in the province of Baetica in the south of the Iberian Peninsula . His family originally came from Tuder in Umbria . In the Jewish War led by the later Emperor Vespasian , Traianus commanded the Legio X Fretensis in 67/68 . During the so-called Four Emperor's Year , in the civil war after the death of Nero, he was a partisan of Vespasian and later of the Flavian dynasty founded by him ; in thanks he was raised to the patriciate by Vespasian . Traianus was a suffect consul between 70 and 72 and administered the important province of Syria for five years from 73 . There he managed to prevent an impending Parthian attack . Later he was governor of his home province of Baetica and finally proconsul of the province of Asia .

With his wife Marcia, Traianus had two children, the future emperor Trajan and a daughter, Ulpia Marciana , who was raised to Augusta by her brother in 105 . He died before 100 and was raised to god by his son 113.

literature

  • Ludwig Budde: The portraits of Marcus Ulpius Traianus Pater . In: Pantheon . tape 24 , 1966, pp. 69-78 .
  • Werner Eck : Ulpius [12]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , Sp. 984.
  • Benjamin H. Isaac, Israel Roll: A Milestone of AD 69 from Judaea. The Elder Trajan and Vespasian . In: The Journal of Roman Studies . tape 66 , 1976, pp. 15-19 .
  • Paul A. Roche: The Public Image of Trajan's Family . In: Classical Philology . tape 97 , no. 1 , 2002, p. 41-60 .
personal data
SURNAME Ulpius Traianus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traianus, Marcus Ulpius; Divus Traianus pater
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, father of Trajan
DATE OF BIRTH before 30
PLACE OF BIRTH Italica
DATE OF DEATH before 100