A new Rome show on Roman
emperor Trajan aims to show his 'pop' side, spanning the senses
of being hugely popular with the Roman people and Senate and the
original vision of a ruler who left the capital monuments
admired through the Renaissance like his famed column and
markets, curators said Tuesday.
The show, Trajan, Building an Empire, Creating Europe, runs
from Wednesday until September 16 2018 in the run-up to the
1900th anniversary of the death of Rome's first non-Italian
ruler, a Spaniard Pliny the Younger called the "best of
emperors".
Trajan himself called himself "an ordinary man who lived an
exceptional life" and said "I was just the right man in the
right place".
The show at his markets, one of the most keenly awaited ones
of the year, is the brainchild of Capitoline superintendent
Claudio paris Presicce and has been curated by Lucrezia Ungaro,
Marina Milella and Simone Pastor.
It charts Trajan's conquests, notably in Dacia, and the high
reputation he enjoyed despite, or perhaps because of, a certain
sexual laxity and fondness for wine, among other things.
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